Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Crannog
Lough Key, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lough Key
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hoeys Rocks
- Coordinates
- 54.00743, -8.23301
- SMR number
- RO003-065----
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1922 · Ireland - northern section. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗
The National Monuments Service's description
On the NE shore of the triangular Lough Key, about 130m from the shore and at the entrance to a bay (dims c. 560m NE-SW; c. 350m NW-SE) which lies to the NE. Oval overgrown area (dims 26.5m E-W; 17m N-S; H 0.6m) composed of earth and stone but with no evidence of arteficial construction. Crannog (RO006-0200----) is c. 50m to the S.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Crannogunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Inscribed stone (present location)under 1 mi
- Concentric enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.