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Cock Island

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Cock Island
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Cock Island is a crannog in Lough Ramor, County Cavan, where people built or shaped an island to keep a home above water and beyond easy reach. Its rectangular hut foundations still rise about three metres above the lake, marking a place where ordinary life depended on reading depth, tide and danger. The name sounds like a jest, but the work was serious: to make a small world large enough for hearth, sleep and memory.
Cock Island is recorded as a islet in County Cavan. Its open map record supplies this location and any linked names or public references.
Cock Island is a small islet located in Lough Ramor, County Cavan, Ireland. It is notable for its association with early Christian monastic activity and is mentioned in historical texts as a site of religious significance.

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