What is recorded here

Crannog in Cornagall is a circular artificial island floating forty-five metres from the Cavan shore, holding rows of oaken stakes and forgotten tools. It is the kind of place where people built a room in the water because the land would not do, then left behind adzes, a chisel and a thin iron knife like a sentence broken mid-word. The lough keeps what the world stopped using.

In Cornagall Lough, c. 45m from the shoreline. First identified in 1878 and then described as an artificial island almost perfectly circular in form, and measuring about thirty yards in diameter. Upon the island were rows of oaken stakes. Portion of a dug-out canoe, two adzes, a hammer, a chisel, a wooden handle and a thin knife-like piece of iron, a whet stone and an oak implement were discovered at the site. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cavan' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1995). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 22 December 2008

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