What is recorded here

Crannog in Gortnashangan Upper OR Hermitage,kevit Upper OR Castlecosby,lisnamandra stands in Castlecosby Lough, County Cavan, Ireland. It is a crannog, recorded as a mound rising above the water with habitation refuse, stones, packwork, a cobbled floor and medieval pottery sherds. People may have lived there, tended fires, broken pots and left behind the shape of ordinary days. The lough keeps what the land forgot, and the crannog remains a room without walls.

Situated in Castlecosby Lough. Davies (1942, 20; ITA Survey 1942) described a mound c.1.5m above the water-level with 0.9m of this depth comprising habitation refuse, stones and packwork. He also noted that it contained a superimposed cobbled floor and sherds of what appeared to be medieval pottery. 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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