Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Crannog
Cock Island, County Cavan, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cock Island
- County
- Cavan
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Cock Island
- Coordinates
- 53.82023, -7.09412
- SMR number
- CV039-085----
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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
Irregularly shaped island (dims. c. 70m NW-SE; c. 65m NE-SW) in Lough Ramor. Davies (ITA Survey 1940) recorded foundations of a rectangular hut site on a mound, 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
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.