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Crannog

Ballinlough (Leitrim By.), County Galway, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Crannog, Ballinlough, County Galway, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Ballinlough (Leitrim By.)
County
Galway
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.07670, -8.45459
SMR number
GA125-012----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1857 · 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

Formerly located in S half of Ballin Lough; the lake has subsequently been drained. Shown on the 1838 and 1920 OS 6-inch map as an irregularly pear-shaped island (c. 55m N-S; c. 12-40m E-W ). Labelled 'East Island' by Wood-Martin (1886, 223) who conducted an excavation in the centre of the island which produced 'four feet [c. 1.2m] of peat, and under it was shell marl, whilst for a radius of about twelve feet [c. 3.7m] around the island there were layers of irregularly-placed stones, small and flat; also at the SE shore there were two beams, seven inches [c. 0.2m] wide'. On inspection the island was not discernible; it lay in a marshy area densely overgrown with reeds and scrub. Two other crannogs (GA125-010---- and GA125-011----) were also formerly located within the lake.

Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG

Date of upload: 7 January 2020

References

Wood-Martin, W.G. 1886 (Reprint 1983) The lake dwellings of Ireland: or ancient lacustrine habitations of Erin, commonly called crannogs. Dublin. Hodges, Figgis and Co.

Nearby in the register

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

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