What is recorded here

Half a kilometre west of the main road, a shallow ditch and a low earthen ridge mark the remains of a fortified farmstead. The site sits on open farmland rather than a hidden valley floor, so it has likely survived because people walked past it instead of digging through it. The visible mound may be all that is left of a timber palisade, a stone wall, or a packed-earth bank. The missing structure is not a failure of imagination; it is a reminder that soil preserves more than stone in many Irish landscapes.

Located at the crest of the E-facing slope at the NE summit of a NE-SW drumlin ridge. This is a circular grass-covered area (diam. 32m NW-SE; 31m NE-SW) defined by an earthen bank (Wth of base 10-11m; int. H 0.9-1.4m; ext. H 2.5-2.7m) separated by an fosse (Wth of top 8-9m; Wth of base c. 2m; ext. D 0.7m-1.4m) from an outer field bank (at N: Wth of base 2.3m; ext. H 0.9m) with an outer stone facing NW-E, which is largely reduced to a low widely-spread mound (at S: Wth 5m; int. H 0.7m; ext. H 0.6m) E-S-NW. The entrance through the inner bank (Wth of base 3.2m) and causeway (Wth of top 5.2m; H 1.1m) is at SE but there is no gap in the outer bank here. 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: 30 January 2018

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