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Crannog

Commonage, County Clare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Crannog, Commonage, County Clare, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Commonage
County
Clare
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.98901, -9.19264
SMR number
CL016-143----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1753 map "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1753 · Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

At the junction of two drainage channels in a flat low-lying waterlogged area of a silted-up lake. Depicted on the 1840 ed. of the OS 6-inch map as a small circle (diam. c. 10m) at the tip of a strip of land jutting into the E part of a lake, in an area that was ‘Liable to Floods’. A subcircular flat-topped mound (dims. of base 21m E-W; 14.3m N-S; dims of top 7.8m N-S, 5.2m E-W; H 0.6-1.7m) composed mainly of earth but with some stone visible on its surface. A drainage channel running roughly WNW-ESE to its S has been recut and the resulting spoil, now overgrown, is spread along its N side. This drain may clip the SW end of the mound. The second drain runs NE-SW and deliberately curves around the W limits of the mound to avoid it.

The following image has been uploaded: CL016-143----_01.jpg View from E

Compiled by: Olive Alcock and Lynda McCormack

Date of upload: 3 August 2022

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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