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Crannog

Drumcalpin (Lower Loughtee By.),Hackelty, County Cavan, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Crannog, Drumcalpin, Hackelty, County Cavan, 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
Drumcalpin (Lower Loughtee By.),Hackelty
County
Cavan
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
NULL
Latest-edition OS map
Indicated
Coordinates
54.05781, -7.40016
SMR number
CV015-030----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1636 map "Vltoniae Orientalis Pars" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1636 · Vltoniae Orientalis Pars (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

In Annagh Lough, c. 60m from the shoreline. Trial-excavation carried out at this site by Davies in 1941. He discovered that the core of the island is a natural morainic ridge, with a mound comprising three distinct habitation layers at its N extent. Finds included medieval pottery in the lowest and middle layers, a large shaped beam of oak, a piece of copper and portion of a shoe. Also found on the island were scraps of burnt bone, ox-teeth, a weathered sherd of pottery and a worked triangular flake of chert. Not visited. (Davies 1942, 21-5)

The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cavan' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1995). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.

Date of upload/revision: 22 December 2008

Nearby in the register

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

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