What is recorded here

Indicated is a drystone rath on a high Cavan drumlin, its oval chamber forty-seven metres long and still serving as a graveyard. The eastern gate stands beside modern pillars, framing an entrance that may have admitted traders, priests or fleeing families before burials filled the space. The hilltop location suggests visibility and pride, while the continued use of the chamber implies that the living kept claiming the dead rather than abandoning them.

Situated just E of the summit of a high drumlin hill. Raised oval area (int. dims. 47.3m N-S; 39.5m E-W) defined by a scarp faced with a wall of drystone masonry. From N-E and from S-SW there is a modern trench at the external foot of the scarp. The interior is used as a graveyard (CV021-006004-). Original entrance, now marked by a modern gate and pillars, was at ESE. The site, from the surface remains, would appear to be a rath later utilised as a burial ground. 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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