Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Crannog
Portnacrinnaght,lough Gara, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Portnacrinnaght,lough Gara
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.91918, -8.44018
- SMR number
- RO009-025----
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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 reclaimed land in marshy ground at the edge of a bay and on the S side of a drain at the SE corner of Lower Lough Gara. Circular overgrown rise (diam. 13m; H 0.4-1.3m) of earth and stone. An iron knife and a quernstone were found at the site, and a dug-out canoe was found tjust o the NE. (Fredengren 2002, App. 1, P 61; No. Kiln 011)
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.