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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
53.45716, -9.83755
SMR number
GA037-006----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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 the northern of the two portions which make up Ballinafad Lough. Kinahan (1872, 12) recorded that 'when the water is low, a circle of stones, with a small island near its centre, is visible' and considered it to be the remains of 'some artificial structure, probably either a crannog or lake stone-dwelling'. Nothing visible at time of visit.

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

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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