Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Crannog
Tunnagh (tirerrill By.), County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Tunnagh (tirerrill By.)
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated (1838).
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.16528, -8.36082
- SMR number
- SL027-057----
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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
In a wet meadow, 120m N of the drained Tunnagh Lough and below the earlier shoreline. The lake is surrounded by drumlins which restrict views in all directions. A roughly circular platform-mound crannog (8.5m N-S; 7.5m E-W; H 0.5m). The surface is even and the site is quite distinct topographically but not in material. While there is not much surface material to confirm this as a crannog, a drain cut 4m S of it exposed a number of rounded stones and a brushwood and timber floor. Indicated as an oval islet at the NE end of the lake on the 1838 OS 6-inch map.
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
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 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.