Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Crannog
Cladowen, County Monaghan, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cladowen
- County
- Monaghan
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.18017, -7.19436
- SMR number
- MO012-059----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1636 "Vltoniae Orientalis Pars" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Depicted as an island close to the NE shore of Glear Lough or Bishop’s Lough, an oval lake (max. dims c. 440m WNW-ESE; c. 200m NNE-SSW) on the 1834 edition of the OS 6-inch map, but it is now incorporated in the tip of a promontory on the SW side of the much reduced lake. It is a circular grass-covered area (diam. 18m E-W; 16m N-S; H c. 1m over the lake) with trees at the edge. Some piles in the water at E and animal bones at the N edge are noted in the 1940s (SMR file). Crannog (MO012-060----) is c. 100m to the NE.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Monaghan' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1986). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Revised by: Michael Moore
Date of revision: 29 January 2018
Nearby in the register
- Crannogunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape featureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.