What is recorded here

Barrack Island is a tiny artificial crannog in Lough Rea, County Galway, built on a pile of stones about eighty metres from the northern shore. It measures barely nine by six metres, small enough for one household or one stubborn dream. Water still claims most of it, yet trees hold what remains above the surface.

This is one of six possible crannogs (see also GA105-198001, GA105-198002-, GA105-198003-, GA199---- and GA105-224----) located in the NE end of Lough Rea; this one is c. 80m from the shoreline to the N. It is shown on the 1838 edition and 1929 revision of the OS 6-inch map as a very small island (c. 9m NE-SW; c. 6m NW-SE). On inspection in June 1992 most of the it was under water but it appeared to be artificially built on a pile of stones. A few trees were growing on it. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 8 January 2020

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