What is recorded here

Crannog in Kilvoydan is a small conical stone pile near the north shore of Lough Atedaun, recorded after exceptional dryness revealed it in 1972. Local visitors around 1945 to 1950 remembered four large wooden stakes set like a square at its centre and animal bones nearby, suggesting people used the lake as a kitchen, shrine or trap. The water may have hidden the place for centuries, giving it the patience of a submerged room waiting for rain to leave it behind.

Located near the N shore of Lough Atedaun. This crannog, and a second one (CL017-118----), at the opposite end of the lake, c. 670m to the SW, were discovered by Fr. Thomas MacNamara in the summer of 1972, a very dry period when the lake level was exceptionally low. The finding was reported to Prof. Etienne Rynne of University College, Galway, who observed the site from the lakeshore in October 1972. Rynne (1981, 93) described the crannog as a ‘small conical pile of stones rising above the surface of the lake.’ Local sources who visited the crannog c. 1945-50 described four large wooden stakes near its centre, set in a square-like arrangement, and said that animal bones were also found at the crannog (ibid.). Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy and Conn Herriott Date of upload: 29-10-2025

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