What is recorded here

Half a kilometre of forgotten life still stands in Corrybrackan: a broad earthen ring, broken by a water-filled ditch, set on the south end of a drumlin ridge. People built it, lived inside it, and left it to grass and rain. It appeared on McCrea’s Map in 1793, but the hands that shaped the bank belong to a time before written memory. The fairies may have taken it later; the humans gave it shape first.

Located towards the S end of a NNW-SSE drumlin ridge. This rath is depicted on McCrea’s Map of County Monaghan (1793). It is an overgrown circular area (diam. 49m NNE-SSW; int. diam. 40m NNE-SSW) defined by an earthen bank (Wth of base 12m; int. H 1.5m; ext. H 3.5-4m) separated by a U-shaped, water-logged fosse (Wth of top 11-14m; Wth of base 1m at SSW to 4m at NNE; ext. D 1m at SSW to 2.5m at NNE) from an outer earthen bank (Wth of base 8-11m; ext. H 0.7m). The entrance through the inner (Wth of base 2m) and outer (Wth of base 3.2m) banks and a causeway (H 0.7m) are at SSE (max. ext. diam. 88m NNE-SSW). There is an outer field bank ESE-W, and an L-shaped depression inside the inner bank at NW is probably the result of quarrying. The rath (MO031-066----) is c. 220m to the NNW, and the raths (MO031-068----) and (MO031-069----) are on a lower shelf c. 200m to the ENE and c. 230m to the E respectively. 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: 31 July 2017

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