Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Crannog
Kilvoydan, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilvoydan
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.94503, -9.04603
- SMR number
- CL017-121----
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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
Located near the N shore of Lough Atedaun. This crannog—and a second one (CL017-118----), at the opposite end of the lake, c. 670m to the SW —were discovered by Fr. Thomas MacNamara in the summer of 1972, a very dry period when the lake level was exceptionally low. The finding was reported to Prof. Etienne Rynne of University College, Galway, who observed the site from the lakeshore in October 1972. Rynne (1981, 93) described the crannog as a ‘small conical pile of stones rising above the surface of the lake.’ Local sources who visited the crannog c. 1945-50 described four large wooden stakes near its centre, set in a square-like arrangement, and said that animal bones were also found at the crannog (ibid.).
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy and Conn Herriott
Date of upload: 29-10-2025
References
Rynne, E. 1981 Crannogs in Lough Atedaun, Corofin, Co. Clare (note). North Munster Antiquarian Journal 23, 93-94.
Nearby in the register
- Crossunder 1 mi
- Architectural fragmentunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.