What is recorded here

Ummerafree holds a forgotten fort on a low drumlin ridge in County Monaghan. The 1834 map drew a forty-metre circle and called it a fort beside a lane, but grass and livestock have since erased the bank from human sight. What remained visible to surveyors became invisible to neighbours, turning a defended place into an ordinary field where only map ink and local memory preserve its shape.

Situated at the NW end of a small and relatively low-lying NW-SE drumlin ridge. A circular embanked enclosure (ext. diam. c. 40m) is depicted only on the 1834 edition of the OS 6-inch map where it is described in gothic lettering as a ‘fort’, and there was a NE-SW lane just to its NW. No archaeological feature is visible at ground level in pasture. 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: 31 January 2018

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