Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Crannog
Ballinlough (leitrim By.), County Galway, Ireland
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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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (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
- Crannogunder 1 mi
- Crannogunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.