What is recorded here

Muck and moylemuck, a hidden ringfort on a Monaghan drumlin, still holds its double ditch and causeway after centuries of grass and forgetting. It is the kind of place where human hands shaped the earth before memory faded, and fairy stories stepped in to claim what people stopped naming.

Located just off the crest of a short N-S drumlin ridge at S. 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 grass and scrub-covered area (dims 46m E-W; 40m N-S) defined by an overgrown earthen bank separated by a wide and deep fosse and a berm from an overgrown outer bank and an external fosse. There is a small bank outside the inner fosse N-ENE, probably resulting from a re-cut of the fosse. W of the centre, a broad depression extending W to a gap in the inner bank may mark the site of a collapsed Man-made underground passage (MO023-016002-). A field bank skirts the outer fosse SW-N with a farm lane outside it W-N. There is an entrance through the inner (Wth of base 3.2m) and outer (Wth of base 3.6m) banks and causeways over the inner (Wth of top 4.1m; H 1.8m) and outer (Wth of top 4m; H 0.5m) fosses at SSE. 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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