Movanagher today is a greenfield site, but back in the early 1600s it was the command centre in Ulster of a London merchant company.

The only visible remains today of this once bustling village is the ruins of the walled headquarters, or bawn, of the Mercer company in the town.

To stand at these ruins and imagine the village in plantation times, you would have to envisage a scattering of houses bordered by a forest and populated by a mix of natives and settlers.

For this was a frontier community.

For archaeologists, the site at Movanagher is a kind of time capsule of the Plantation time.

Its eventual failings as a settlement demonstrated the gulf which existed between the theory and the reality of some Plantation planning.

And the evidence of Gaelic-style dwellings within what should have been an English-style settlement showed that one of the cardinal rules of the Plantation had been breached.