What is recorded here

Crannog in Lough Gara,portnacrinnaght is a crannog in Lough Gara,portnacrinnaght, County Roscommon, Ireland. The circular island measures fourteen metres across and rises between zero point four and zero point eight metres above the water. Cattle bones recovered from the mound base produced a radiocarbon date of 1120 plus or minus sixty years before present. A preservation order under the National Monuments Acts protects the site.

Just off the N shore of the Callow Lough of Lough Gara. Circular overgrown island (diam. 14m; H 0.4-0.8m) of earth and stone with some bones visible and a slight causeway (L 4m), perhaps recent, at N. Cattle bones from the base of the mound produced a 14C date of 1120 +- 60 BP (Fredengren 2002, App. 1, P61; Kiln 012; Cross 92). Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010 This monument is subject to a preservation order made under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 (PO no. 218/1955).

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