Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Crannog
Lough Arrow, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lough Arrow
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Crannoge (Site of)
- Coordinates
- 54.03197, -8.32415
- SMR number
- SL040-179----
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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 mouth of Ballinafad Bay, in the W side of Lough Arrow between Aghanagh point and the opposite peninsula. The site is submerged and indicated by a stand of reeds. A circular low-mound (29.6m N-S; 29.6m E-W; H 1.7m above the muddy lake-bed), the edges of which drop dramatically all round. There is a concentration of rounded and subangular stones (3m N-S; 2m E-W) in the centre. A second possible crannog (SL040-178----) lies c. 150m to NNW.
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
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Crannogunder 1 mi
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.