What is recorded here

Crannog in Cranaghan is a vanished lake dwelling on the shore of Killywilly Lough, reduced today to three pots of coarse black ware and a suggestion by Davies. Mitchell found the sherds in 1941, but the crannog itself has slipped beyond locating, leaving behind a hollow where a household once stood. It is the kind of place that resists being pinned down, as if the lake took back what it borrowed.

Not marked on any OS ed. Mitchell (1941, 30) found sherds of pottery, representing three pots, all of coarse black ware, at this location, on the shore of Killywilly Lough. Davies suggested that this was probably the site of a crannóg. Not located. 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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