What is recorded here

Lurganboy fort is a grass-covered earthen ring on a narrow spur in County Monaghan, with a causeway and entrance preserved at its east edge. It has watched the land since before maps marked it, and local story calls it a fairy fort where the boundary between worlds grows thin. People may have lived inside its bank or feared what the bank contained, but the earth still holds both possibilities without choosing between them.

Located the tip of a W-E spur. This rath is depicted as an earthwork 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-covered area (dims 50m NW-SE; 45m NE-SW) defined by a grass-covered earthen bank (at N: Wth of base 3.8m; int. H 0.1m; ext. H 1.4m) with some bushes, and remnants of a fosse SE-S and at NW. The original entrance (Wth of base 4.4m) and causeway (Wth of top 2.3m; H 0.8m) are at ESE, and the perimeter is skirted by a road bank NW-NE. 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: 17 July 2007

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