Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Crannog
Lough Ennell, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lough Ennell
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Ash Island
- Coordinates
- 53.47226, -7.41517
- SMR number
- WM025-163----
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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
Depicted as an island 180m E of the W shoreline of Lough Ennell on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map with Dysart Island 420m to SSE. Depicted as Ash Island on the 1911 revised ed. OS 6-inch map but today located on marshy shoreline of Lough Ennell. Described by O'Sullivan (2004, 82-3) as 'low, oval cairn (approx. dims. 30m N-S x 30m E-W; H 2m) of stones, earth, with stones scattered around the site. It slopes down gradually to the edges. It is located in drained marshy land and is heavily overgrown by trees, but was originally in shallow, open water to the north of Dysart Island. This is a probable crannóg, potentially of early medieval date'.
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 14 February 2017
References
O'Sullivan, A. 2004 The social and ideological roles of crannogs in early medieval Ireland. Unpublished PhD thesis. Department of History, NUI Maynooth.
Nearby in the register
- Crannogunder 1 mi
- Crannogunder 1 mi
- Bastioned fortunder 1 mi
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.