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
- 53.95021, -8.42493
- SMR number
- SL047-007----
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
In Lough Gara, on the NE shore of Inch Island with views over the mouth of the Boyle River and to the Ox Mountains. The two possible crannogs (SL047-006----; SL047-007----) (Cross 1953, fig. 1) have become indistinct with no definite edges. They consist mainly of wooden posts in an area where water has eroded out sediments and exposed the white lake marl. Overlying the marl is a number of small angular stones. The older shoreline is visible further up on the shore. During the site inspection twenty-six pieces of wood were found in the shallow water and also wooden posts, horizontal timbers and pieces of brushwood, directly on top of or in the marl. Further up towards the older shoreline there are rows of stones, firmly set into the ground. (Fredengren 2002, KILA 014, 015)
Compiled by: Archaeological Survey Unit, UCC with revisions by Patrick F. O'Donovan and Paul Walsh
Date of upload: 20 June 2011
Nearby in the register
- Crannogunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.