Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Crannog
Finlough, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Finlough
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated (1838).
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.13237, -8.61635
- SMR number
- SL025-137----
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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
At the boggy shoreline on the S edge of Fin Lough. A circular low-mound crannog (6.4m N-S; 7m E-W; H 0.57m above the lake-bed) on a lake-bed that is firm in places and marshy in others. The surface of the mound is grass-covered and fairly even with some stones visible in places and it slopes gradually down into the water. The E edge is the most well defined. The crannog is surrounded by a band of rushes (Wth c. 2m) that may mark its true edge. The S edge blends into the surrounding water-meadow. A possible crannog (SL025-137001-) is c. 50m to SSE.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Sligo' compiled by Ursula Egan, Elizabeth Byrne, Mary Sleeman with Sheila Ronan and Connie Murphy (Dublin Stationery Office, 2005).
Date of upload: 18 January 2008
Nearby in the register
- Crannogunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Barrow - mound barrowunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.