Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Crannog
Derrycoagh,lough Gara, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Derrycoagh,lough Gara
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.92250, -8.43856
- SMR number
- RO009-014001-
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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
On a flat landscape reclaimed from Lough Gara, on the old N shore of a small triangular bay (max. dims c. 150m NW-SE; c. 130m NE-SW) open to the lake at NW. Oval cairn (dims 11m NW-SE; 8m NE-SW; H 1.5m) mantled at N and NE by spoil from modern water holes, which contains decayed hazel posts. Some bronze rings were recovered near this monument (Lucas 1971, 220).
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
References
Lucas, A.T. 1971 National Museum of Ireland: archaeological acquisitions in the year 1968. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 101, 184-244.
Nearby in the register
- Crannogunder 1 mi
- Crannogunder 1 mi
- Crannogunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.