Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Crannog
Drinaun,Annaghmore (Roscommon By.), County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Drinaun,Annaghmore (Roscommon By.)
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Crannoge
- Coordinates
- 53.80257, -8.15231
- SMR number
- RO023-105----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
Near the centre of the elongated triangular Annaghmore Lough (dims. c. 1.5 km E-W; c. 100m N-S at E to c. 600m N-S at W), c. 100m from the SE shore with a submerged ridge leading to it. Overgrown stony mound (diam. 26.4m ENE-WSW; 27.3m NNW-SSE; H 1-1.3m) with an arc of posts on the perimeter S-SW. A collapsed drystone wall (Wth 0.3m) surrounds the summit (int. diam. 9.5m N-S; 8.3m E-W).
See the attached view taken from the shore at N.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 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.