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
- 53.94896, -8.42892
- SMR number
- SL047-004001-
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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 S shore of Inch island, c. 100m E of another crannog (SL047-003----). It is connected to the shore via a causeway at N, but in winter is surrounded by water. It is sparsely covered with grass though there is some overgrowth on the N portion. A low-cairn crannog (11.1m N-S; 12.2m E-W; H 1.2m above the marl lake-bed), the unstable surface of which mainly consists of a dense concentration of angular flagstones (diam. c. 0.4m). The stones are loosely packed with very little soil fill between them. The cairn slopes gently down into the lake and seems to be surrounded by a submerged plateau of flagstones. A possible hut site (SL047-004002-) is visible 9.4m to N. (Cross 1953, fig. 1; Fredengren 2002, KILA 017)
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
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Crannogunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.