Moybologue Historical Society

Bring boots or wellingtons. I didn’t, and had no grip, with all that can result in!

After many years of visiting Rathcroghan Visitor Centre, and shamefully having never visited the mound itself, an unplanned opportunity finally presented en route home from a weekend in Enniscrone.

a longer detailed visit to take in more of the landscape will be planned in for the summer months.

Ceide Fields. Been meaning to go for years!

Out of a walk in Killykeen Forest Park today and paid a visit to the Gartnanoul Court Tomb.

Old loo and evidence of murder among archaeological finds of 2025 Other finds include a Bronze Age coffin and human remains thought to belong to shipwreck victims.

Don't think I've seen this in previous years - an annual round up of #archaeology on the BBC website!

Good to see ' #treasure ' not being centre stage for once.

...also interesting to note that cash value is only mentioned in relation to the #detecting finds.

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Plenty of indoor and outdoor accessible heritage sites to visit over the holiday season in this area with plenty of online pages, guidebooks and brochures available locally. Go out and enjoy where possible!

examples of © Séighean Ó Draoi’s work.

This work is currently on-going. Nora’s PhD-student Cassandra Pruetz is cataloguing scribal variation on inscribed stones across time and object. For the near future, a workshop with the sculptor and letter-carver Séighean Ó Draoi is planned.
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Nora White, Compert Mongáin and Three Other Early Mongán tales: A Critical Edition with Introduction, Translation, Textual Notes, Bibliography and Vocabulary [= Maynooth Medieval Irish Texts 5], Maynooth: Department of Old and Middle Irish 2006.

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Latinate Inscriptions

Following her 2006 PhD in Maynooth (an edition of the tales about Mongán mac Fíachnai), Dr Nora White became one of the leading scholar in Ireland for ogam inscriptions. She was the main person behind the development of the Ogham in 3D website (ogham.celt.dias.ie/)...
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The inscribed cross slab from Moybologue, Co. Cavan, CAV-001(https://emili.celt.dias.ie/en/inscriptions/CAV-001.html).

…website for ‘EMILI – Early Medieval Irish Latinate Inscriptions’ is hosted by @scs-dias.bsky.social @dias.ie.
In 2023, Nora’s research was awarded a @researchireland.ie Pathway Grant for ‘Early Medieval Irish Script on Screen’ to study the transition from ogam to Latin alphabet writing.
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The ‘EMILI – Early Medieval Irish Latinate Inscriptions’ website.

…since 2012. But Nora’s epigraphic interests also encompass Old Irish inscriptions in Latin letters. In 2021, Nora and I received funding via a Royal Irish Academy Nowlan Digitisation Grant @ria.ie in order to create a ‘Digital Corpus of Medieval Irish Latinate Inscriptions’. The resulting…
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Will there be a Hidden Heartlands edition? Asking for a friend!

CV034-046003 Wayside - Bishop - Download Free 3D model by Cavan3D CV034-046003 Wayside - Bishop - Download Free 3D model by Cavan3D

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CV034-046006- Graveslab - Download Free 3D model by Cavan3D This graveslab is a recorded national monument. It depictins a cleric in medieval garb, - CV034-046006- Graveslab - Download Free 3D model by Cavan3D

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Delighted to learn that Mass this evening in Saint Patrick’s Church, Tierworker will be offered in honour of Saint Siric, a patron Saint of Moybologue. What a lovely gesture that an historic patron Saint should be honoured & celebrated in a parish mass on his feast day.

Today, November 26, is the feast of Pope Siricius (d. 399). Early medieval Irish hagiographers gaelicised him as Bishop Siric of Mag Bolg (Moybologue, Co. Cavan).

Made Of Stone Documentary on David Keohan, also known as

encourage anyone who hasn’t yet watched ‘Made of Stone’ about David Keohan aka ‘Indiana Stones’ quest to reanimate the long forgotten tradition of Irish Stone Lifting, while it’s still on RTE Player. You’ll laugh, cry, marvel & feel immensely proud in equal measures!

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Loved being back at Rathcroghan Visitor Centre on Saturday for what has become my annual pilgrimage. Another excellent edition of Archaeology Above & Below. Congratulations to Daniel, Mike, Elaine & the team in Tulsk for all you do to bring the Rathcroghan experience to life & make it so accessible.

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Clear skies and a beautiful evening for a stroll around a peaceful country graveyard. Used the Merlin Bird ID App for only 5 mins and detected a surprising variety of birds in the immediate vicinity.

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Listen Back: The Wider View live from Tierworker | NorthernSound A great day was had in Tierworker, when the Wider View Roadshow visited the east Cavan village on Monday.Ronan Gargan was joined by a number of guests throughou...

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We’re migrating here fully over the next few days. Our IG page has been taken down as well, as it’s too much trying to mod 4 feeds. Our FB page is maintained as is for the foreseeable. Looking forward to keeping the interactions & discussions going over here. Happy New Year!

Wishing you a very Happy Christmas and a safe and healthy New Year!

Irish Hillforts | Amplify Archaeology Podcast Irish Hillforts Dig into the Story of Irish Hillforts in Amplify Archaeology Podcast Episode 43 with Dr James O'Driscoll Irish Hillforts are some of our largest monuments,

You can find Amplify Archaeology on all the usual podcast platforms, including Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Audible, and more, or on our website at the link below:
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The preprint without John Flynn's drawings:
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And the inscription in Nora White's @ndefaoite.bsky.social EMILI database: emili.celt.dias.ie/en/inscripti...
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Since its the day for it, an apposite reminder that Moybologue has its own early medieval Latinate inscription in Old Irish, about which Brian Callaghan @moybologue.bsky.social and I published an article in 2020: www.brepolsonline.net/doi/epdf/10....
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Photo of Moybologue - image courtesy of https://historicgraves.com/graveyard/moybologue-old/cv-mool

Today, Nov 26, is the feast of Pope Siricius (d. 399). Early medieval Irish writers gaelicised him as St Siric of Mag Bolg (Moybologue, Co. Cavan). Moybologue is an important ecclesiastical site.

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Moybologue Church and Graveyard Audio Guide Moybologue Church and Graveyard Audio Guide Discover the story of this ancient graveyard, a place of significance for centuries

There’s also an excellent Abarta produced Audio
Guide that can be used on-site, from the comfort of your arm-chair, or indeed anywhere which is available at the below link or as podcast where-ever you podcasts from.