Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Crannog
Lough Carra, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lough Carra
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.66350, -9.24843
- SMR number
- MA110-082----
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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 centre of reed bed; N of crannóg (MA110-036----), SW of Lakeview Island. Site (32m N-S; 27m E-W) entirely submerged; appears to have been abandoned during construction. Four artifical cairns of stone (two on S, one on E and one on W); interspaced by smaller stones along lake bed. Cairns enclosed E to W by more than twenty timber posts (H 1.3m) set into lake bed. Local tradition of dug-out canoe being removed from site.
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. 304.
Date of upload: 30 October 2013
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.