Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Crannog
Lough Gara, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lough Gara
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.97068, -8.46296
- SMR number
- SL044-070----
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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 on the shores of Lough Gara, on a dry ridge parallel to the earlier shoreline, NW of another crannog (SL044-071----). When submerged in winter the ridge is marked by a line of trees in the water. A low circular grass-covered platform (9.5m N-S; 9.2m E-W; H 0.45m above the meadow), the surface of which is stable and even. Some stone packing is evident along the NE edge. This is one of a group of four crannogs (SL044-069----; SL044-071----; SL044-072----). (Cross 1953, fig. 1; Fredengren 2002, KILF 003)
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
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.