What is recorded here
Situated within the floodplain of the Fuarawn river which lies to the W of site. Rectangular-shaped platform earthwork (ext. dims E-W 15.60m x 34m N-S) with no evidence of an enclosing bank or fosse and no entrance feature. The summit of the mound (dims. 24m x 8m) is quite level. It is not clear if this earthwork may have been the site of a crannog described in 1979 as, 'in the townland of Ballycurragh; all that remains now is an oval platform of clay in the bog' (Feehan 1979, 94).
Situated within the floodplain of the Fuarawn river which lies to the W of site. Rectangular-shaped platform earthwork (ext. dims E-W 15.60m x 34m N-S) with no evidence of an enclosing bank or fosse and no entrance feature. The summit of the mound (dims. 24m x 8m) is quite level. It is not clear if this earthwork may have been the site of a crannog described in 1979 as, 'in the townland of Ballycurragh; all that…
From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record OF039-035
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