Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Crannog
Cow Island, County Cavan, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cow Island
- County
- Cavan
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Cow Island
- Coordinates
- 53.81804, -7.10176
- SMR number
- CV039-083----
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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
Large irregularly shaped island (dims. c. 70m NW-SE; c. 50m NW-SW) in Lough Ramor, c. 70m from the shoreline. Davies (ITA Survey 1940) recorded foundations of a rectangular hut on the central mound which is c. 3.5m above the water-level of the lake.
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.