What is recorded here

Crannog in Lough Gara is a crannog in Lough Gara, County Sligo, Ireland. It occupies a wet meadow on the lake shore, southeast of another crannog and at the east edge of a dry ridge parallel to the water. The east portion projects into the lake. A small roughly circular stone platform measures 5 metres north to south and 4 metres east to west, rising 0.2 metres above the lake bed.

In a wet meadow on the shores of Lough Gara, SE of another crannog (SL044-070----), at the E edge of a dry ridge parallel to the shore. The E portion projects into the lake. A small roughly circular stone platform-crannog (5m N-S; 4m E-W; H 0.2m above the lake-bed) consisting of an area of scattered stones mixed with natural lake pebbles. In the SW quadrant there are three or four large stones (dims. c. 0.5m x 0.4m; 0.85m x 0.65m). This is one of a group of four crannogs (SL044-069----; SL044-070----; SL044-072----). (Cross 1953, fig. 1; Fredengren 2002, KILF 001) 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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