What is recorded here

McCrea’s 1793 map marked the Leagh rath before modern surveys, proving people recognised the drumlin ridge anomaly for centuries. The earthen bank still circles a subcircular patch of grass, though gaps now split its perimeter and hide the entrance. Fairies may have danced inside after dark, but more likely humans shaped the ridge into a boundary for living, keeping, or remembering.

Situated on a local summit on a NE-SW drumlin ridge. This rath is represented on McCrea’s Map of County Monaghan (1793) and on the 1834 and 1907 editions of the OS 6-inch map. It is a subcircular overgrown area (dims 39m N-S; c. 35m E-W) defined by an earthen bank and external fosse or a wide berm separating the bank from a field bank that surrounds the rath. There are large gaps in the perimeter at SSE, W and NW but the original entrance is not identified. 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: 19 June 2018

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