What is recorded here

Boraghy holds a circular earthen fort at the south end of a drumlin ridge, marked as a fort on an 1834 map and still showing a grass-covered platform in 1967. Its perimeter once carried trees, and its west quadrant now lies beneath a farm track. The fort may have served as a boundary marker, a shelter, or a place of ritual memory, yet no surviving account names the hands that shaped it. What remains is a shallow scar in the field, waiting for someone to imagine the life it held.

Located at the S end of a short NW-SE drumlin ridge. A circular embanked enclosure with trees on the perimeter is depicted on the 1834 edition of the OS 6-inch map where it is described in gothic lettering as a ‘fort’, and it is depicted as an arc of hachures (Chord c. 30m NE-SW) on the NW side of a NE-SW field bank on the 1907 edition. This NW segment was extant as a grass and scrub-covered platform in 1967 (diam. 26.5m NE-SW) defined by a scarp (at N: Wth 1.85m; H 1.3m). A farm track had been laid over the W quadrant by 2000 (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. Revised by: Michael Moore Date of revision: 9 May 2018

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