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
- 53.94447, -8.42304
- SMR number
- SL047-012009-
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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
On the S shore of a bay in Lough Gara, between Derrymore Island and Derrybeg townland. This possible crannog is evident only as a line of stones stretching out from an earlier shoreline into the water meadow to the W of another crannog (SL047-012007-), outside a fenced area. It was marked as one of a group of eight small crannogs by Cross (1953, fig. 1). One of a group of eight possible crannogs (see SL047-012002-; SL047-012003-; SL047-012004-; SL047-012005-; SL047-012006-; SL047-012007-; SL047-012008-) and one crannog (SL047-012001-) in the small bay between Derrymore Island and Derrybeg townland. (Fredengren 2002, KILA 030)
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
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.