What is recorded here

Lahard holds a broad earthen ring where a missing ditch and broken bank suggest a busy entrance rather than a forgotten dead place. The fairies may have borrowed the shape, but humans built the ridge, entered through the gap, and left behind a boundary large enough to remember.

Raised circular area (int. dims. 36.3m NNW-SSE; 32.7m ENE-WSW) enclosed by an earthen bank and a fosse of which only slight traces survive from NE-SSE. Well-defined break in bank with faint traces of accompanying causeway at NE probably represents original entrance. 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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