Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Crannog
Drumcanon, County Monaghan, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Drumcanon
- County
- Monaghan
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.04941, -6.93864
- SMR number
- MO026-003----
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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
Situated in Black Lough, at the entry to the NW arm of a roughly X-shaped lake (max. dims c. 770m NE-SW; c. 500m NW-SE) with arms (Wth c. 120-300m) extending to the NE, SE, SW and NW. A large island (dims c. 50m E-W; c. 40m N-S) is depicted only on the 1907 edition of the OS 6-inch map, but it is now incorporated in woodland on the N side of the lake. A cairn (diam. 20m; H 1.5m) on rock outcrop may be a crannog, but no structural features are evident.
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.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of revision: 26 February 2018
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 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.