Notes on the Black Pig’s Dyke

Notes on the Black Pig’s Dyke

The Black Pig’s Dyke is an ancient Irish earthwork composed of banks, ditches, and timber palisades, stretching across several counties. While once believed to serve as a defensive frontier for Ulster, new research suggests ritual or symbolic purposes were more...
Notes on Dromod and Roosky, County Leitrim

Notes on Dromod and Roosky, County Leitrim

The tale of the Dromod locomotive and the Furnace ironworks, as well as William de Vismes Kane, Bridie Clyne, Albert Reynolds, Maura McNally and Baron Harlech’s links to President John F. Kennedy, plus how the Roman governor Agricola may have helped an Irish...
Of Rings, Raths & the Kings of Leinster: Around the Lisnavagh Estate

Of Rings, Raths & the Kings of Leinster: Around the Lisnavagh Estate

In the distant past, the raths around Lisnavagh were part of the power base of the Uí Ceinnselaig (Kinsellagh). This section considers the links to Rathmore, Rathvilly, the Oldfort ringfort and the Slíghe Chualann, as well as two kings of Leinster, Crimthann (baptised...