What is recorded here

Allagesh held a circular earthen fort on a ridge until field work erased it before 1995. The lost structure measured thirty-two to thirty-four metres across, with a bank rising one metre thirty above the grass and a shallow scarp cutting the other side. It may have been a home, a boundary marker, or a place where people gathered when the land needed watching. Its disappearance is not unique, but it still removes a room from the world.

Located on top of a short NE-SW ridge. It was described in 1967 as a circular grass-covered area (diam. 34m NW-SE; 32m NE-SW) defined by an earthen bank incorporated into a field bank (at NW: Wth of base 2.5m; int. H 0.5m; ext. H 1.3m) W-N-E and a scarp (at SW: Wth 2m; H 0.45m) elsewhere. There was no evidence of a fosse or an original entrance. It had been removed by 1995 (OSAP). 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: 30 August 2017

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