What is recorded here

Crannog in Commonage is a flat-topped earthen mound sitting where two drainage channels cross inside a silted-up lake in County Clare. It still stands at the junction of those cuts, slightly oval and low, with one channel curving around it instead of breaking through. The area was known for flooding, so the mound may have been a small dry place for people, animals or tools when the land around it disappeared under water.

At the junction of two drainage channels in a flat low-lying waterlogged area of a silted-up lake. Depicted on the 1840 ed. of the OS 6-inch map as a small circle (diam. c. 10m) at the tip of a strip of land jutting into the E part of a lake, in an area that was ‘Liable to Floods’. A subcircular flat-topped mound (dims. of base 21m E-W; 14.3m N-S; dims of top 7.8m N-S, 5.2m E-W; H 0.6-1.7m) composed mainly of earth but with some stone visible on its surface. A drainage channel running roughly WNW-ESE to its S has been recut and the resulting spoil, now overgrown, is spread along its N side. This drain may clip the SW end of the mound. The second drain runs NE-SW and deliberately curves around the W limits of the mound to avoid it. The following image has been uploaded: CL016-143----_01.jpg View from E Compiled by: Olive Alcock and Lynda McCormack Date of upload: 3 August 2022

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