Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Crannog
Knocknashammer Or Cloverhill, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Knocknashammer Or Cloverhill
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.24201, -8.50098
- SMR number
- SL020-058----
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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)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1904 · Sheet 4. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗
The National Monuments Service's description
Visited by Sligo Crannog project 2000. This site is located in the NE end of the lake c.10m from the shoreline. It is overgrown. Comprises an oval cairn (L 25.7m E-W, 19.2m N-S, H 2.8m). The mid cairn is located slightly to the E (L 7m E-W, 5.8m N-S) and consists of a dense concentration of loosely packed sandstones. It is surrounded by a an uneven platform of stones (Wth 11.90m W, 11.20m N). On the N side of the site is a linear drystone-walled feature (L 5m, Wth 1.10m, H 0.85m) which may be the remains of a jetty.
Compiled by: Geraldine Stout
Date of upload: 14 August 2013
Nearby in the register
- Crannogunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.