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A long pair of parallel earthen banks just over 70m north

of the multi-vallate ringfort is known as the Teach Miodhchuarta or Banqueting Hall and was the subject of much Medieval speculation even to the nature of the seating arrangements.

The parallel banks are slightly curved and run downslope from south to north for some 203m with a width of approximately 30m. Both banks were seemingly raised from material dug from the interior, which is now below ground level; there are at least five gaps in the western bank and five or six in the eastern.

There are slight traces of a closing bank at the southern end and the northern end is said to have terminated in an area of wet ground known in the Dínnseanchas as 'the marsh of Tara.' Probably a ceremonial earthwork like the Mucklaghs at Rath Croghan.

2.Rath Croghan, Co Roscommon

Rath Croghan is probably best known as the royal seat of the legendary Queen Maeve and her consort Ailill, King of Connacht, and the place where that great cattle raid of Cooley, the Táin Bó Cúailgne, was initiated.

Known as Curachain in early literature, it figures like Navan and Tara as a major royal settlement; it also sometimes described as the location of a great cemetery where many warriors are buried, as well as the inauguration site of Kings, and as a magic place with an entrance to the otherworld.