Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Crannog
Lavareen, County Leitrim, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lavareen
- County
- Leitrim
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.99108, -7.74354
- SMR number
- LE029-011----
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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)
- 1811 · 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
Just off the S end of the NE shore of the triangular Lough Donogher (max. dims c. 700m NW-SE: c. 500m NE-SW), which has its apex at NW. A small island (diam. c. 5m) is depicted only on the 1909 edition of the OS 6-inch map. Some quernstones from Lavareen townland, probably from this feature, were acquired by the National Museum of Ireland (Lucas 1957, 132). However, there is no visible evidence of a crannog in this area of Lough Donogher.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 16 January, 2017
References
Lucas, A. T. 1958 National Museum of Ireland - Archaeological acquisitions in the year 1957. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 88, 115-38.
Nearby in the register
- Crannogunder 1 mi
- Crannogunder 1 mi
- Crannogunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.