Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Crannog
Lough Rea, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lough Rea
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Middle Island
- Latest-edition OS map
- Middle Island
- Coordinates
- 53.19601, -8.57138
- SMR number
- GA105-198001-
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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
This is one of six crannogs (see also GA105-198----, GA105-198002-, GA105-198003-, GA105-199---- and GA105-224----) located in the NE end of Lough Rea; this one is c. 80m from the shoreline to the NE. It consists of a small roughly pear-shaped island (c. 17.5m NE-SW; c. 8.6m NW-SE) that is artificially built on a pile of stones. The interior is grass covered and several mature trees are growing around its perimeter. Current OSi aerial imagery shows a wide natural causeway (max. Wth 43m) leading towards it from the shoreline to the NW.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 8 January 2020
Nearby in the register
- Crannogunder 1 mi
- Crannogunder 1 mi
- Crannogunder 1 mi
- House - 18th/19th centuryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.