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Crannog

Lough Gara, County Sligo, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Crannog, Lough Gara, County Sligo, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Lough Gara
County
Sligo
Country
Ireland
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.93196, -8.42702
SMR number
SL047-055----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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 N side of the Ross peninsula. A circular low-cairn crannog (14m N-S; 11m E-W; H 1m above the lake-bed) consisting of layers of angular boulders and flagstones sitting on large horizontal beams and grey sand. There are vertical posts throughout the site and along the edges. This crannog has been dated to the Early Iron Age (Fredengren 2002, 94). This is the westernmost of a group of four crannogs (SL047-056----; SL047-056001-; SL047-057----) in the same bay. (Cross 1953, fig. 1; Fredengren 2000c, 26-7; 2002, KILA 046)

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.

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