Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Crannog
Lough Key, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lough Key
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.98266, -8.25946
- SMR number
- RO006-037----
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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)
This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗
The National Monuments Service's description
In the triangular Erris Bay (dims. c. 500m E-W at S; c. 200-400m N-S) at the SW corner of Lough Key, and c. 70m from a peninsula on the bay's S shore. Circular overgrown island (diam. 16m; H 1.2m) of earth and stones with horizontally laid timbers visible in the water at E. A underwater shelf (Wth c. 3m) surrounds the island.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
- Crannogunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.