Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Crannog
Drumheel (lower Loughtee By.), County Cavan, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Drumheel (lower Loughtee By.)
- County
- Cavan
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.02958, -7.44518
- SMR number
- CV020-095----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1636 "Vltoniae Orientalis Pars" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Situated in the most northerly part of Lough Oughter, c. 20m from the E shore of a rectangular bay (dims c. 550m NNW-SSE; c. 440m ENE-WSW) and at its outer (S) edge. A small island (diam. c. 5m) is visible when the lake level is low as can be seen on satellite images from Apple Maps (c. 2012) and Google Earth (05/05/2017; 06/06/2018; 21/04/2020). Not visited.
See the attached image from Apple Maps
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 12 October 2022
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.