Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Crannog
Lough Carra, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lough Carra
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.66508, -9.26057
- SMR number
- MA109-022----
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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
Submerged in bay, on SW shore of Lough Carra. Revetted, stone structure, triangular in shape (10m N-S; 6.5m E-W), overlain by loose patches of rock NE to NW.
The above description has been derived from D. Lavelle (compiler), An Archaeological Survey of Ballinrobe and District including Lough Mask and Lough Carra. Lough Mask and Lough Carra Tourist Development Association (1994), No. 302.
Date of upload: 22 February 2013
Nearby in the register
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- House - 17th centuryunder 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.