What is recorded here

Aghateskin holds a vanished oval fort, seventy metres long and fifty wide, mapped in 1834 but erased from the pasture shelf. The land keeps its shape only in memory, waiting for rain or foottraffic to reveal the buried line.

Situated on a shelf at the bottom of a SW-facing slope. It is represented as an oval embanked enclosure (ext. dims c. 70m E-W; c. 50m N-S) only on the 1834 edition of the OS 6-inch map where it is described in gothic lettering as a ‘fort’. No archaeological feature is visible at ground level in pasture. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Monaghan' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1986). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of revision: 8 December 2017

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