Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Crannog
Ardkeeran (tirerrill By.), County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ardkeeran (tirerrill By.)
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated (1838).
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.12597, -8.38831
- SMR number
- SL034-015----
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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
On the SW shore of Lough Meharth, an inter-drumlin lake and intervisible with another crannog (SL034-016----) c. 400m to SE. A roughly circular low-mound crannog (11m N-S; 10m E-W; H 1.2m above the shore) with a central crescent-shaped mid-mound (7m N-S; 4m E-W). The mid-mound consists of compact soil mixed with charcoal and has sharp edges which drop c. 0.23m to the surrounding plateau. The crannog is overgrown with grass and a few bushes. It is indicated as a circular islet, c. 10m from the lakeshore, on the 1838 OS 6-inch map and as a small projection into the lake on the 1914 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
- Barrow - embanked barrowunder 1 mi
- Crannogunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.