County: Monaghan Site name: Annagh
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 05E0788
Author: Brian Halpin, National Archaeological Services, Ard Solas, Lacken, Co. Wicklow.
Site type: Post-medieval farm
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 651141m, N 774349m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 54.169314, -6.821787
An excavation in advance of road development was carried out at Annagh, Co. Monaghan, as part of the N2 Castleblayney–Clontibret road realignment scheme. The site consists of one ruined building set inside a bawn. Two buildings are marked on the 1938 OS survey. The building is a two-storey, domestic dwelling, built in the early 20th century. The enclosed areas around the house appear to have been gardens. The present arrangement is clearly different from the 19th-century usage, when the site may have consisted of a farmhouse flanked by outbuildings/sheds (as seen from map evidence). Any evidence for metalled yard surfaces has been removed, with the exception of a thoroughfare from the adjacent road to the fields, to the north of the present house. The building was also subject to a standing building survey and map regression by Fred Hamond during the same phase of advance archaeological works.
