Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Crannog
Cullentragh (costello By.), County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cullentragh (costello By.)
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.78482, -8.85595
- SMR number
- MA092-089----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
In Derrykin Lough.
A small oval island (max. dim. c. 15m) is shown on the 1838 OS 6-inch map in Derrykin Lough, very close to the W shore, with another small island/possible crannog (MA092-027----) c. 95m to NNW; neither is shown on later map editions where the margins of the lake are depicted as marshy.
The lake levels have dropped so that the lake shore has receded by perhaps 20m from the levels shown on the 1838 map, leaving a margin of wettish reedy pasture. Ground rises gradually to W.
No trace of a crannog is visible. A possible fulacht fia (MA092-111----) is located some meters to NW.
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 24 May 2022
Nearby in the register
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
- Crannogunder 1 mi
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.