School: Dhuish
- Location:
- Dooish, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: P. Ó Murchadha
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1013, Page 226
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- (continued from previous page)Taghart the twin hill of Dhuish and situated a short distance from it gives its name of the electoral division.
There are almost twenty or so large stones arranged in a sort of circle with a hole three feet wide in the middle. Old people refer to this as the 'cairn'. Whether there were even more stone at this the highest point I cannot say. I have been told by a man interested in local history that Owen Roe encamped here some time after the battle of Benburb. It forms an ideal vantage point overlooking the northern part of the central plain. He sent his standard bearers on into Co Meath but he did not advance any further south. Below Taghart hill is situated Taghart lake. This is really the overflow from a spring or member of springs. There is amystic circle to be seen starting and ending at the lake and rising above in on the side of the mountain. Some think it is a track formed by the fairy horses which came out of the lake galloped round and went back into it again. Others say it is the coune taken by the horses in sports held here during patterns in former times.
