about two miles
        from the house
where my parents now live
the crannog of Lagore

"the first great lacustrine retreat
noticed in Ireland
in modern times"

(they moved there
about 3 1/2 years before this writing
and heard about it
and told me

and I
am interested in homes)

was found in 1840
by workers digging drains

a raised circular mound
about 520 feet across

200 tons of bones
removed for manure

once, on a visit
        I walked over
to have a look

        and could see
from the road
the yellow bog

but found no path
and was reluctant
        to climb the wall
and look for gaps in hedges
and so went back to the village
for a pint

(reading about Lagore in Wood-Martin's book, I can't help but be amazed by his confident Victorian belief that one could cram everything there is to know about a given subject into one big book, and close the covers.)

go to Kildare St./
to the National Museum/
and you can see:

an iron grisset (for melting tallow)
bronze keys
four knives
a fishing spike
a flint arrowhead
a sickle
a bill-hook
a spade head
a baked clay tuyere
a bronze omega brooch
a prisoner's collar and chain