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
- 53.61084, -7.47530
- SMR number
- WM011-165----
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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. According to the local landowner a group of oak posts were visible protruding above the surface of the reclaimed lake after the Inny River drainage in the late 1960s (pers. comm. Oliver Ennis). Crannóg now visible as a low rise of ground with no visible remains of oak posts. Could be the same site as WM011-005----, but this is not certain. Found in close proximity to dug-out canoe inspected by the NMI in the late 1960s.
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 17 July 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.