What is recorded here

Church Island is a vanished crannog on the south shore of Lough Gur, erased from modern maps but preserved in memory as a small solid area surrounded by soft marsh. It likely served as a remote worship place or seasonal refuge, connected to the mainland by a causeway now buried under reeds and time. The name suggests Christianity reached this isolated water-world early, perhaps through a hermit, a travelling priest, or a family who kept faith across generations. Its disappearance is not loss but transformation, the island dissolved into the landscape while its purpose continued beneath the surface of the region's identity.

Crannóg described by O'Kelly (1944, 19) as following; 'This crannog is called Church Island on the earliest edition of the O.S. map but it is not shown on the recent revisions. . It is situated on the present shore-line on the S. side of Lough Gur and appears merely as a small solid area surrounded on the landward side by a soft marsh. It seems to have been connected with the mainland by a causeway'. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 06 August 2019

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