What is recorded here

Clear field boundaries cut across the crest above Lough Macnean Upper, marking one of the better-preserved rural landscapes in County Cavan. The straight lines and angular enclosures suggest people shaped the land deliberately, perhaps dividing pasture, residence and ceremony along the promontory. What is less certain is how daily life moved through that layout: where animals grazed, where families worked, and whether the ringforts stood as defence, status or simply neighbourhood.

Situated across the crest of rising ground on a broad promontory at the S side of Lough Macnean Upper is a field system and a complex of earthworks, ringforts, hut sites and cashels. The extant system is visible as orthogonal elements comprising a long linear field boundary running N-S, up to and around the W end of CV001-007---- a ringfort, with another long linear boundary running WNW to ESE, roughly perpendicular to the former element but clearly running across an earlier enclosure (CV001-031----) Additional elements of curving and straight field boundaries with annexes can be discerned to the E and SE with faint traces to the south of CV001-009---- a ringfort - cashel. Compiled by: Margaret Keane Uploaded on: 28 October 2020

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