What is recorded here

Col. Wolseley built a square fortified town with angled corner bastions in 1689, but greedy grave-digging and a modern roadway chewed through most of it. Only the south rampart still stands, a thick earthen line guarding the buried bones of a vanished military settlement. The Church of Ireland chapel now occupies the heart of the destruction, proving that faith and forgetting can both build on top of forgotten strength.

Davies (1948, 100) recorded that this site was constructed by Col. Wolseley in 1689. It is now largely occupied by a modern Church of Ireland chapel and graveyard. Bradley and Dunne (OPW 1989, 25-6) were of the opinion that 'it had been originally square with salient angled bastions at each corner'. Only the S side has survived. This comprises a substantial linear earthen rampart with external fosse and bastions at each end. Very slight traces of the NW bastion are also identifiable. The W and E ramparts and the NE bastion have been destroyed as a result of grave-digging. The graveyard wall and the modern roadway at its external foot are built on the site of the N rampart. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cavan' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1995). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 22 December 2008

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