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ovit there seem to be unreliable. The first distinct remains that I can rely 

 on may be found on the road that runs along the west boundary of Drumbarry 

 townland, and on through Largan to a ring- fort there, and thence N.W. along 

 the slope of Ardkilmore into Drumavaddy and Drumcrow. It is marked 

 south of Slieve Glah in the parish of Denn on the Ordnance Map as " The 

 Worm Ditch," similarly to the one of that name in Monaghan County — it 

 goes also by the names of " the Black Pig's Eace," and " the Black Pig's 

 Valley." Further west it is said to have existed in Ardlinny near the church 

 at Ballintemple, and Ballinamoney. At Bellananagh some traces of its course 

 can be seen W. and N.W. of Fleming's Folly, and also behind Mr. Bonnet's 

 Corn Mill. Old people there remember seeing portions of it demolished in 

 adjoining fields about 60 years ago. They also state that the ditch on the 

 south side of the rampart was much deeper than the one on the north side. 

 This feature I have referred to in my eaidier paper when dealing with the 

 ramparts in Co. Monaghan and those near Graiiard, indicating that it was 

 erected against invasion from the south. At Bellananagh the people state 

 that the fortifications ran easterly to Drogheda (a traditional survival of its 

 origin as an ancient boundary of Ulster along the Blackwater and Boyne). 

 The other terminal is confidently stated to have been at Athlone. If we 

 consider the distance to Athlone, and the east and west alignment of the 

 works near this locality, it is evident that a confused tradition of Ulster 

 territory having once extended to Athlone, somehow has survived. But we 

 shall see shortly that it was another line of defences belonging to No. 1 

 Frontier, which started fiom Donaghpatrick Bridge, that went to Athlone, 

 while this second line we have now traced to Scrabby at Lough Gowna, or 

 else by Crossdoney to the Paver Erne, ran west through Longford and Leitrim 

 by Ballinamuck' to Cloone and Mohill, forming a part of this Second Frontier 

 now under consideration. 



I am informed that near Bellananagh is a place called Annamuica, the 

 " Marsh of the pig." Another statement I received is that in the parish 

 of Mullahoran the ditches ran through PoUakeel and Barnahoe, and a man 

 named Delany said that he remembered it passing through the townlands of 

 Ballyboy and LisdufF. It would be worth investigating how far this is 

 correct. 



I must here make a digression with reference to the series of ditches at 

 Granard described in my first paper, called Duncla. At the time of its 

 publication I had no knowledge of any but the one line of defences then 



I When at Granard, and again at Ballinamuck, I failed to find this trench to Lough 

 Gowna. But I was told that such existed, though perhaps not well marked. 



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