Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Crannog
Lough Iron,cullenhugh, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lough Iron,cullenhugh
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.61202, -7.47481
- SMR number
- WM011-010001-
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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
Situated on the NE shore of Lough Iron, and would have been in the water prior to drainage of the Inny River in the 1960s. A circular shaped area (diam. 16m; H 0.5m) enclosed by a kerb of limestone blocks, is connected to a crannóg (WM011-010---).
Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 13 June 2017
Nearby in the register
- Crannogunder 1 mi
- Crannogunder 1 mi
- Crannogunder 1 mi
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.