Abbeylara
Abbeylara ( Irish Mainistir Leathrátha - German "Abtei [des] halben Rath " ) is a village on the regional road R396, about three kilometers east of Granard in the east of County Longford in Ireland .
The name comes from the Cistercian monastery, Lerha Abbey , which was founded in 1205 by the Cambro-Normans Risteárd de Tiúit ( English Richard Tuite ) and dissolved in 1539. Their ruins are near the village. An old earthwork , the Duncla (Irish Dúnchlaí - German "fortified wall" ), part of the Black Pig's Dyke ( Claí na Muice Duibhe ), which runs southeast from Lough Gowna to Lough Kinale, passes the village about one kilometer to the north.
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- ↑ The Black Pig's Dyke or Worm's Ditch is a discontinuous series of linear earthworks in the southwest of Ulster and in the northeast of Connacht,
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Coordinates: 53 ° 46 ′ N , 7 ° 27 ′ W