Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Crannog
Glebe (leitrim By.), County Leitrim, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Glebe (leitrim By.)
- County
- Leitrim
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.01301, -7.83290
- SMR number
- LE029-006----
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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
Situated at the mouth of a subrectangular bay (dims c. 150m N-S; c. 120m NE-SW) at the NE end of the subcircular Fenagh Lough (dims. c. 800m NE-SW; c. 600m NW-SE). This is an overgrown, circular, stony island (diam. 11.5m E-W; 10.5m N-S; H 0.7m) with a narrow causeway (Wth 1m) curving beneath the surface of the water towards the mainland at N. (Kane 1886, 408-9)
See the attached view taken from the E.
The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Leitrim' compiled by Michael J. Moore (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2003). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload: 23 September 2008
References
Kane, W.F. de Vismes 1885-6 Notes on crannogs in Leitrim. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 17, 407-9.
Nearby in the register
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - court tombunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.