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, -8.45569
- SMR number
- SL046-028----
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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 Lough Gara on the marly and muddy lake-bed. A low-cairn crannog (18m N-S; 20m E-W; max. H 1.5m above the lake-bed), the surface of which consists of well-sorted angular stones as well as shattered stones (diam. c. 0.05-0.1m). The cairn material is mixed with animal bones. A number of vertical posts were noted both at the edges and in the crannog body. A low shrub and some grass grow on the surface. This crannog has been radiocarbon dated to the Late Bronze Age (Fredengren 2002, KILC 021). It is one of a group of three crannogs (SL046-027----; SL046-029----). (Cross 1953, fig. 1; Fredengren 1998a, 31-3; 2000c, 27; 2002, KILC 021)
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.