Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Crannog
Killeen (ballynahinch By.), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Killeen (ballynahinch By.)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.45761, -9.85272
- SMR number
- GA036-013----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
In E half of Killeen Lake. Killanin (1954, 101) records that 'the island in [this lake] is reputed to be a crannog'. The 2nd ed. of OS 6-inch map (1898) shows two islets, the easternmost and more substantial of which is a roughly triangular island (c. 20m by c. 15m) mantled in overgrowth. This is probably the island referred to, though no archaeological features are visible. Inspected from lake shore only.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. I - West Galway'. Compiled by Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993).
Date of upload: 05 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Designed landscape featureunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape featureunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.