What is recorded here

Cloghard is a megalithic structure on a flat Cavan hilltop where a split block leans between two set stones beside an old round cairn. The stones may have marked a boundary, a burial place or a seasonal gathering point, but their exact purpose has faded. They still stand on open ground, waiting for someone to remember what they witnessed.

Sited on a flat hilltop and 7m SE of the perimeter of a round cairn (CV016-015001-). Between two set stones, 2.7m apart, and leaning against one of them is a great block of stone. The set stone to the SW measures 0.8m by 0.6m by 1.1m high and the other 1m by 0.5m by 0.8m high. The intervening block, now split, leans against the latter. It measures 2.1m by 1.5m by 1.1m in size. Two prostrate slabs, the larger 1m in maximum dimension, lie at the E end of the structure. A slight grassy mound around the remains may not be original. The nature of the monument is not now clear. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cavan' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1995). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 22 December 2008

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