What is recorded here

Crannog in Cartronroe is a poorly preserved pear-shaped mound of earth and stone, stretching 40m long and 25m wide, caught between a shallow northern lake and a fast southern stream. It is the kind of place where water and soil negotiate forever, giving up its shape a little more each century. Anyone standing there would feel the marsh breathing around them, remembering a life that no longer has a name.

In a very marshy area with a shallow lake to N and a fast-flowing stream to S. It consists of a poorly preserved pear-shaped mound of earth and stone (L 40m, Wth 25m, H 1.5m). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

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