What is recorded here

Crannog in Drumkeery: In 1863 the lake water dropped and the hidden oval island appeared as a peninsula near the southeast shore. Birch and oak piles still stood in a rough circle, and burnt bones lay scattered where a kitchen may have smoked. A dugout canoe waited beneath the surface, waiting for hands that had rowed away centuries before.

In Drumkerry Lough. Wood-Martin (1886, 200-1) recorded how the lowering of the water-levels in the lake in 1863 had converted an oval-shaped island (dims. c. 40m N-S; c. 25m E-W), situated close to the SE shore of the lake, into a peninsula. The island was enclosed by a stockade of birch and oak piles. A layer of gravelly clay and large stones added height to the summit. At N burnt bones and charcoal, which Wood-Martin interpreted as a kitchen midden, were discovered. The entrance to the crannóg was apparently at S with a landing-place identified at NE. He also noted a dugout canoe shaped from an oak trunk embedded in the bottom of the lake, close to a second landing-place. 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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