Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Crannog
Drumbo, County Monaghan, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Drumbo
- County
- Monaghan
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.92540, -6.73050
- SMR number
- MO034-011----
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Shown on 5 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 the shallows on the NE shoreline of Rahans Lough (L c. 1km N-S; c. 80-160m E-W), which has a bulbous (dims c. 330-c. 400m) northern end. This is a small cairn (diam. 5m; H 0.2m over water) but the cairn extends below the water level (D 0.5-1m) c. 10m to the W and S. This is probably the small crannog described by Boylan (1967, 362-3) in 1954 as having timbers when a dug-out canoe was discovered in the lake. There were no structural timbers visible in 1983, but animal bones were present.
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.
Date of revision: 27 July 2017
References
Boylan, Rev. A. H. 1967 The parish of Magheracloone. Clogher Record, vol. 6, No. 2, 361-78.
Nearby in the register
- Crannogunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.