The area surrounding Moylagh is covered in history, from the ruins of Moylagh Castle you can see straight to the tombs at Loughcrew. there is also evidence of a Ringforts with many defensive banks.
There are strong suggestions that Moylagh was a monastic site, based on the presence of numerous circular ditches. The Anglo- Normans arrived in the 1170s and built a motte and bailey, which would often be a wooden castle which may have lasted until the sixteenth century when a stone castle replaced it. There was an old church attached to the castle and was in existence until about 1680.
teh land around the remains of tower and church was used as a graveyard used up to the 1960s and it sis believed that huntsman Brian McCormick [Brianbawn] is buried there in a standing position so that he could see the hunt on Grennan hill. Victims of An Gorta Mor were also buried here from the Oldcastle workhouse.
