Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Crannog
Cloonturk,drumod Beg,moherrevan, County Leitrim, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cloonturk,drumod Beg,moherrevan
- County
- Leitrim
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- SMR number
- LE035-034----
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The National Monuments Service's description
Cloonturk Lough is a small oval lake (dims c. 300m N-S; c. 180m E-W) in a low-lying basin. which can flood to its old extent (dims c. 600m N-S; c. 270m E-W) as represented on the 1835 edition of the OS 6-inch map, although. Wood-Martin (1886, 243) lists it as having two crannogs, but no supporting evidence is provided and this crannog remains unlocated.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 6 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.