What is recorded here

Legghimore holds a forgotten ringfort where grass still marks the shape of a vanished wall. The fort appeared on an 1834 map, disappeared from a later one, and now resists ordinary seeing. It is the kind of place that remembers being hidden, waiting for someone steady enough to admit what the field already knows.

Located in a fold towards the bottom of a S-facing slope. This is depicted as an embanked enclosure (ext. diam. c. 30m) described as a 'fort' in gothic lettering on the 1834 edition of the OS 6-inch map, but it is not represented on the 1907 edition. No archaeological feature is visible at ground level in pasture, but it can be seen as the parch-mark of a circular enclosure (diam. c. 35m) on the OSI aerial images (2005). 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: 27 July 2017

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