Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Crannog
Rushy Island (lough Ennell), County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rushy Island (lough Ennell)
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Rushy Island
- Coordinates
- 53.49379, -7.37765
- SMR number
- WM026-103----
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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
Listed as Rushy Island and described by O'Sullivan (2004, 102-3) as following; 'Located at N end of Lough Ennell, 220m NW of School Boy island (WM026-102----), currently in marshy land (was originally 100-150m from shoreline). The site is beside a drain that marks original channel of River Brosna. Crannóg consists of a low, oval mound (approx. dims. 35m N-S x 26m E-W; H 0.02m) located in drained marshy land. It is built of large stones and pebbles, which rise towards the centre of the mound. It was cut through on the western side by a modern drainage ditch in the 1960s, which revealed no structural timbers, but there was a large quantity of animal bone in a midden'.
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details provided by Aidan O'Sullivan.
Date of upload: 9 March 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 Unpublished PhD thesis.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
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Bawnunder 1 mi
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.