Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Crannog
Commonage, County Clare, Ireland
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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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (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
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.