Crannog in Coolteige, County Roscommon

The monument record does not grant public access. Check the route and ask the landowner before entering private land.

What is recorded here

There is a reference to a crannog in this townland of Coolteige (NMI file), but no lake is known from cartographic sources. It was not encountered.

Photo credits

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National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
Westmeath Independent; photographer not stated, www.westmeathindependent.ie
Roscommon Herald (publisher); individual photographer not named for this image, www.roscommonherald.ie
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