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
- 53.94305, -8.47064
- SMR number
- SL046-052----
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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, c. 300m from the present shoreline, surrounded by drumlins. The vegetation consists of one shrub and some grass and nettles. A low-cairn crannog (11.3m N-S; 13.5m E-W; H 1.2m above the muddy lake-bed; H c. 0.4m above the water), the surface of which consists of small shattered stones, some round stones and a scatter of subangular stones forming a reasonably even surface. Some larger stones (diam. c. 0.3-0.4m) lie submerged to the E and W of the crannog. The N edge slopes down quite sharply. A small jetty (3m N-S; 9m E-W) projects to W. (Fredengren 2002, KILC 019)
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
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- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.