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
- 53.94933, -8.45762
- SMR number
- SL046-027----
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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, c. 3m from the old shoreline of Lough Gara, c. 80m NW of one crannog (SL046-029----) and c. 120m SW of another (SL046-028----). A low-cairn crannog (11m N-S; 12m E-W; H 0.5m above the meadow) the surface of which consists of small angular boulders and some flagstones loosely set in the ground. To S, a short causeway (L 2-3m; Wth 1.2m) consisting of five or six flagstones laid side by side, leads into the shore. (Cross 1953, fig. 1; Fredengren 1998a, 31-3; 2002, KILC 023)
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
- Crannogunder 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.