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Crannog in Lough Arrow

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Crannog in Lough Arrow is a crannog in Lough Arrow, County Sligo, Ireland. The site occupies the western side of the lough, where a dense cover of reeds marks a low irregular mound sitting on the soft lake bed. The mound stretches 22 metres from north to south and 16 metres from east to west, with stones covering its surface while the whole structure lies approximately 0.4 metres beneath the water.
In the W side of Lough Arrow. This possible crannog is submerged c. 0.4m under the water and marked by a dense cover of reeds. It consists of a low irregular mound (22m N-S; 16m E-W), the surface of which is covered with stones, on the soft lake-bed. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Sligo' compiled by Ursula Egan, Elizabeth Byrne, Mary Sleeman with Sheila Ronan and Connie Murphy (Dublin Stationery Office, 2005). Date of upload: 18 January 2008

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