What is recorded here

Ardlougher holds a forty-two-metre earthen ring where human hands built a boundary the land still remembers. A field cut the circle in two and machinery removed part of the south edge, yet the remaining bank resists forgetting. The lost entrance may have faced water, road or neighbourhood, but the chamber shape suggests people valued a complete circle more than convenience.

Raised circular area (int. diam. c. 42m) enclosed by a substantial earthen bank and a shallow fosse. Site is divided into two roughly equal portions by a field boundary running NNW-SSE and has been levelled to SSW of field fence. Original entrance not recognisable. 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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