Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Crannog
Lough Key, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lough Key
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Bingham Island
- Latest-edition OS map
- Bingham Island
- Coordinates
- 53.98893, -8.26494
- SMR number
- RO006-035----
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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)
- 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
At the mouth of a bay (dims. c. 800m NE-SW; c. 250m NW-SE) at the SW corner of Lough Key. Circular overgrown island (diam. 19.5m N-S; 17m E-W; H 0.7m) of earth and stone but with no evidence of artificial construction. Crannogs (RO006-030----; RO006-195----) are c. 450m and c. 800m to the SW, the three being known traditionally as the Hag's Leaps (O'Flanagan 1931, vol. 1, 119).
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Crannogunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Monumental structureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.