Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Crannog
Cloonglasny Beg, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cloonglasny Beg
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Crannoge
- Coordinates
- 53.84930, -8.04388
- SMR number
- RO017-144----
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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
Near the middle of triangular Lough Elia a triangular lake (dims. c. 500m N-S; c. 200m E-W at N to c. 450m N-W at S). Circular overgrown island (diam. 20m) of earth and stones (H 1-1.5m). A collapsed wooden palisade is visible offshore N-E. Artefacts including decorated bone, bone combs and a whetstone are recorded from this site (Kelly 1895, 180). Crannog (RO017-190----) is c. 250m to the SE.
See the attached aerial views taken from the S (001) and SE (002).
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Crannogunder 1 mi
- Bullaun stoneunder 1 mi
- Enclosure - large enclosureunder 1 mi
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.