What is recorded here

Six low house platforms and a sunken roadway still mark the deserted medieval settlement in County Meath, preserving a community that vanished before modern farms covered the area. The Parys family held Agher from the fourteenth century until Tudor conspiracies stripped them of the land around 1550, after which the Gernons built a castle and expanded the estate. Later owners laid out gardens near the site, yet the old ground shapes survived beneath the pasture, waiting for someone to walk across them and imagine the hands that first shaped them.

Aerial photograph (GB89.M.09) shows an extensive sequence of low-level earthworks radiating outwards from the church enclosure; the earthworks comprise house plots, a hollow-way, small rectilinear fields and curving boundaries indicating a deserted settlement, probably of medieval date. Compiled by: Dr Gillian Barrett for the Archaeological Survey of Ireland. Date of upload: 10 June 2009

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