What is recorded here

Crannog in Lough Gara is a crannog in Lough Gara, County Sligo, Ireland. It occupies the south shore of a bay between Derrymore Island and Derrybeg townland. A line of stones stretches from an earlier shoreline into the water meadow west of another crannog. Cross identified it as one of eight small crannogs in that bay.

On the S shore of a bay in Lough Gara, between Derrymore Island and Derrybeg townland. This possible crannog is evident only as a line of stones stretching out from an earlier shoreline into the water meadow to the W of another crannog (SL047-012007-), outside a fenced area. It was marked as one of a group of eight small crannogs by Cross (1953, fig. 1). One of a group of eight possible crannogs (see SL047-012002-; SL047-012003-; SL047-012004-; SL047-012005-; SL047-012006-; SL047-012007-; SL047-012008-) and one crannog (SL047-012001-) in the small bay between Derrymore Island and Derrybeg townland. (Fredengren 2002, KILA 030) 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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