Talk:Black Pig's Dyke

1st century AD (0 - 100 AD)
Shouldn't the first century be 1 - 100 AD? 86.40.208.206 (talk) 10:46, 14 April 2010 (UTC)

Anything useful here?
I have moved the following text from an article about a village called Kiltyclogher. The text was formerly in a section entitled "The Village" but it does not describe the village, rather, it is about the nearby Black Pig's Dyke. Rather than simply delete it, I am moving the text here in case anyone can find something useful in it that might improve the Black Pig's Dyke article.

The Black Pig's Dyke (Irish: Gleann na muice duibhe, meaning "glen of the black pig"), also known as The Dane's Cast, was a series of numerous defensive, discontinuous segments of ditches, built between the old rival Irish provinces of Ulster and Connacht in the 1st century AD. Today, remnants of the ditches stretch through South County Down, County Armagh, County Monaghan, County Cavan, County Leitrim and South County Donegal. Its purpose is not fully clear, but is has been assumed that it was either for the vital protection of cattle between Ulster and Connacht, or for protection of warring tribes on each side of the numerous ditches.

The ditches are scattered in a discontinuous line, sometimes many miles apart, and stretch between numerous bog areas and lakes, particularly in County Cavan. It takes its name from old Gaelic folklore, namely how a large boar tore up the Irish countryside with its huge tusks. In County Cavan it is locally known as 'the worm ditch', because according to local folklore in the area, it was made by a huge worm wriggling across the countryside. Ardkill Hill, 3½ miles from the town of Ballinagh in County Cavan, contains a good example of the dyke which has survived. Efforts to save part of the dyke in County Cavan continue. Cavan Heritage Group have called for the cessation of operations on a nearby quarry which they maintain is damaging part of the dyke. On the border of Cavan and Monaghan, the Pig's Dyke stretches four miles between the Finn River above Redhills and Bunnoe River two miles west of Drum village, and one mile north of the hill fort at Magheratemple. In Leitrim, part of the dyke can be viewing in the townland of Corracloone, outside the village of Kiltyclogher in 1755.

None of the material contained citations, and the final sentence is meaningless. — O'Dea (talk) 14:41, 1 February 2012 (UTC)

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Map
I’ve added a map using Template:Location map many. It’s not very good, but the better option (Template:OSM Location map) is a bit broken at the moment. Below is how the OSM version should work if the current sandbox code goes live (the page says March 2024). It would probably be good to add the border of Ulster.

Code: ⚜ Moilleadóir ✍ 07:59, 7 March 2024 (UTC)