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
- 53.93499, -8.42026
- SMR number
- SL047-042003-
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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 a water meadow, to E of two other possible crannogs (SL047-042001-; SL047-042002-) and attached to the earlier shoreline of Lough Gara. An indistinct oval mound-platform (7.2m N-S; 8m E-W; max. H 0.65m above the meadow). The surface of the mound is overgrown with grass and relatively even. There are some limestone and sandstone boulders (diam. 0.6-0.8m) around the otherwise indistinct edges. There is a small sand quarry to E. (Cross 1953, fig. 1; Fredengren 2002, KILA 042).
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.