Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Settlement platform
Lough Kinale, County Longford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lough Kinale
- County
- Longford
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.77333, -7.40324
- SMR number
- LF011-067002-
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1636 "Vltoniae Orientalis Pars" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
On the foreshore of Lough Kinale. Excavations undertaken in 2003-4 revealed a nearly circular man-made platform (diam. c. 12m) rising 0.4m above the lake-bed. It appeared to be a multiperiod site with layers of peat and brushwood overlain by a stony surface. Finds included over 15,000 stone artifacts of flint, chert and quartz, mainly of Mesolithic date, and animal bone and worked wood. Much of the bone comprised wild pig with some cattle in evidence. Spreads of ash and hearths indicated that fires had been lit on numerous occasions and the presence of wooden stakes suggested temporary structures. It is possible that this site may be that recorded as the ‘Kinale 1’ crannog (LF011-065002-) (Fredengren et al. 2010, 137, Area A). A crannog (LF011-075----) lies to the WNW. (Fredengren 2006; Moore 2007, No. 1)
Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan, Paul Walsh
Date of upload: 13 January 2013
References
Moore, S. 2007 Archaeological monuments in County Longford. Longford. Longford County Council.
Fredengren, C., Kilfeather, A., and Stuijts, I. 2010 Lough Kinale: studies of an Irish lake. Lake settlement project. Discovery Programme Monograph No. 8. Wordwell Ltd.
Fredengren, C. 2006 Derragh, Mesolithic. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 2003: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 318-19. Bray. Wordwell.
Nearby in the register
- Crannogunder 1 mi
- Prehistoric site - lithic scatterunder 1 mi
- Crannogunder 1 mi
- Prehistoric site - lithic scatterunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.