What is recorded here

Crannog in Lough Gara is a crannog in Lough Gara, County Sligo, Ireland. It is the easternmost of four crannogs in the same bay. The grass-covered platform measures 6.8 metres north to south and 3.6 metres east to west, rising 0.2 metres above the meadow. Shattered stones rest on peat and marl beneath the grass.

In a water-meadow, below an earlier shoreline of Lough Gara and E of another crannog (SL047-056----). Though marked as a large crannog by Cross (1953, fig. 1), the present remains are that of an oval to irregularly shaped grass-covered platform (6.8m N-S, 3.6m E-W; max H. 0.2m above the meadow) consisting of shattered stones on peat and marl. This is the easternmost of a group of four crannogs (SL047-055----; SL047-056----; SL047-056001-) in the same bay. (Fredengren 2002, KILA 050). 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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