What is recorded here

Fort Hill in Annahuby still holds a circular earthen ring thirty-three metres across, marked on the 1907 map and shaped like a fortress though local memory calls it a fairy fort. Its bank rises two and a half metres on the outside, drops to sixty centimetres inside, and opens through a widened causeway at the southeast. A farmhouse stands ten metres north, yet archaeological testing there produced no related material, leaving the ring to keep its own quiet company on the plateau edge.

Situated on a hill described as ‘Fort Hill’ on the 1907 edition of the OS 6-inch map that is at the SW edge of a broad plateau. This is a circular area (diam. 33.2m WNW-ESE; 32.4m NNE-SSW) used as a haggard which is defined by an earthen bank (at E: Wth of base 3.6m; int. H 0.6m; ext. H 2.6m), with an outer fosse SE-W. There is an outer bank ESE-SW where it becomes incorporated in a field bank SW-W. The entrance (Wth of base 3m) and widened causeway are at SE. There is a farmhouse c. 10m to the N where archaeological testing (12E0007) produced no related material (Sweetman 2012). 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. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of revision: 26 February 2018

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