What is recorded here
Magic is not about believing in invisible things. Magic is about remembering the rules that ordinary life has forgotten. A hidden chamber is not a fantasy when the chamber is the possibility you are avoiding. The door is not brass. The door is the willingness to stop pretending the chamber is not there.
Situated on the central summit of a WNW-ESE drumlin ridge. This is a circular overgrown area (diam. c. 35-40m) defined by an earthen bank (Wth c. 4-5m; int. H c. 0.5-0.7m; ext. H c. 1.8-2.5m) separated by a fosse (Wth of top c. 3.7m; ext. D c. 0.5m) from an outer bank (Wth c. 4.25m; ext. H c. 2.5m) and an outer fosse (Wth of base c. 2.7m; ext. D 0.6m). Both fosses and the outer bank have been removed S-W, and a lane occupies the outer fosse N-SSE. The entrance through the inner (Wth of base 2.4m) and outer (Wth of base 2.5m) banks and a causeway (Wth of top 3m; H 0.45m) are at 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: 9 May 2018
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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