Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Crannog
Lough Gara, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lough Gara
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.91011, -8.46385
- SMR number
- RO008-029001-
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Visible as a small island on aerial photographs (ACAP: V221/127-8), close to the S shore of the Callow Lough of Lough Gara. Circular grass-covered cairn (diam. 10m; H 0.5m) on which animal bones were found. Crannog (RO008-029002-) is c. 80m to the W, and souterrain (RO009-027----) is on the shore c. 130m to the SSE. (Fredengren 2002, App. 1, P 64; Kiln 026)
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Crannogunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Crannogunder 1 mi
- Crannogunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.