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
- 53.93196, -8.42702
- SMR number
- SL047-055----
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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 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
- Crannogunder 1 mi
- Crannogunder 1 mi
- Crannogunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.