Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Crannog
Cappanouk, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cappanouk
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- SMR number
- LI015-044----
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The National Monuments Service's description
The precise location of a crannog in the 'bog of Cappanook' has not been identified. Lynch (1932, 42) recorded the following tradition about an island in the bog of Cappanouk, he wrote that a dwarf, named Dara, 'resided on an island in the bog of Cappanook, where there was a lake named Liath, or "gray". Whatever we may think of this story, there was at any rate an island in the bog of Cappanook connected with the dwarf, and the name Cappanook is from the Irish Ceapach an abhaic, the tillage plot of the abhac or "dwarf" whose "castle" was on this island which was his ceapach'.
Compiled by: Fiona Rooney
Date of upload: 3 July 2020
References
Lynch, J.F. 1932 Lissavoora. Journal of the Cork Historical and Archaeological Society 37,42-6.