Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Crannog
Gortacarnaun (Moycullen By.), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Gortacarnaun (Moycullen By.)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.39302, -9.25946
- SMR number
- GA067-011----
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1753 map "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1753 · Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
In the centre of Lough Naneevin. In 1865 Kinahan investigated a 'crannog' on the southerly of the two islands shown on 2nd ed. of OS 6-inch map; now totally overgrown and surrounded by a dense reed bed. This was 'of an oval shape' (45.7m by 22.9m) and evidently defined by a single 'row of round oak piles about four inches in diameter' at SW, and similar but double rows at NW and S. At E 'an irregular flooring of ash, sallow, and oak beams' was noted. Excavations made at six points revealed 'a basket flooring under nearly the whole of the Crannoge', as well as a hearth and a 'kitchen midden' from which a 'polishing stone', a 'dart-head' and animal bones were recovered. At S a narrow causeway, apparently artificial, joined it to the mainland. Inspected from lake shore only. (Kinahan 1866; Wood-Martin 1893, 244-5)
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
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