What is recorded here

Indicated in planting is a ruined rath in County Monaghan, disguised today as a tree ring on a drumlin slope. It kept its circular shape through centuries of forestry and neglect, suggesting human hands first drew the boundary before nature filled it. The missing entrance and buried fosse hint that the site resisted full erasure even when people stopped visiting.

Situated on a small W-E spur towards the bottom of the E-facing slope of a drumlin and within view of the site of Newbliss House, which is c. 440m to the NE. A circular enclosure (ext. diam. c. 25m) is depicted on the line of the straight W perimeter of a D-shaped wood (dims c. 90m N-S; c. 80m E-W) on the 1834 and 1907 editions of the OS 6-inch map. This is a grass-covered circular area (diam. 29m E-W; 27m N-S) defined by a grass-covered earthen bank (at ENE: Wth of base 2.2m; int. H 0.4m; ext. H 1.4m) that survives best N-E-S, and traces of an outer fosse of drain (at ENE: Wth 1.3m; D 0.2m). An entrance is not identified and old tree stumps are present. It was adapted as a tree ring, but it was probably a rath originally. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of revised upload: 9 May 2018

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