Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Crannog
Porters Islands, County Cavan, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Porters Islands
- County
- Cavan
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Porters Islands
- Coordinates
- 53.82039, -7.09169
- SMR number
- CV039-084----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
Two islands c. 50m apart situated in a shallow bay in Lough Ramor. The larger NE island is roughly oval in plan (dims. c. 80m NNE-SSW; c. 45m WNW-ESE). The SW island is subrectangular in plan (dims. c. 70m NNW-SSE; c. 30m E-W). Davies (ITA Survey 1942) described both islands as 'fairly open', with central mounds rising to c. 3m 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
- Crannogunder 1 mi
- Crannogunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.