Loch Gabhar

Loch Gabhar (Lagore) is an area in the barony of Ratoath, County Meath, Ireland. It is located between the villages of Ratoath and Dunshaughlin and is the origin of the names of the townlands of Lagore Big (Loch Gabhar Mór) and Lagore Little (Loch Gabhar Beag).

The name has two interpretations. One is "Lake of (the) Goats" and the other is Loch dá Gabhar as "Lake of (the) Two Horses", explained in the eleventh-century Dindsenchas as the place where Gáeth ("Wind") and Grían ("Sun"), the horses of Eochu, king of Munster were drowned, using a literary homonym gabhar meaning "horse" rather than "goat".

Lagore is also home to the Lagore crannóg, the Irish royal residence of the 7th to 10th centuries.

During excavations of the site a number of bronze items were found, including weapons and brooches. These finds included the Lagore Brooch, which can now be found at the National Museum of Ireland on Kildare Street in Dublin.

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