Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Crannog
Lough Carra, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lough Carra
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Otter Island
- Latest-edition OS map
- Otter Island
- Coordinates
- 53.66123, -9.24682
- SMR number
- MA110-036----
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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 Lough Carra, 220m from E shore. S of crannóg (304). Artifical, oval-shaped stone cairn (28m N-S; 22.5m E-W); formed around natural rock, heavily overgrown. Breakwater (L 4m) extending to SW. Some timber posts visible on S beneath water-level.
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. 303.
Date of upload: 28 October 2013
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.