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Crannog
Clooncoose (ballintober North By.), County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Clooncoose (ballintober North By.)
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.87362, -8.06806
- SMR number
- RO017-095002-
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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
Situated c. 50m from the N shore of triangular Toomore Lough (dims. c. 300m N-S; c. 120m E-W at S; c. 250m E-W at N). Oval overgrown island (dims 45m E-W; 17- 20m N-S) consisting of stone and earth (H 0.8m) with vertical wooden posts, occasionally in double lines, visible under the water. A quernstone fragment is at the centre. Crannog (RO017-095001-) is c. 30m to the W.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Crannogunder 1 mi
- Settlement clusterunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.