What is recorded here

Crannog in Lough Gara is a crannog in Lough Gara, County Sligo, Ireland. It occupies a wet meadow three metres from the old shoreline, eighty metres north-west of one crannog and one hundred twenty metres south-west of another. The low mound rises half a metre above the grass, spans eleven metres north-south and twelve metres east-west, and wears small angular boulders with loosely set flagstones on its surface. A causeway two to three metres long and one point two metres wide, built from five or six flagstones laid side by side, extends south toward the shore.

In a wet meadow, c. 3m from the old shoreline of Lough Gara, c. 80m NW of one crannog (SL046-029----) and c. 120m SW of another (SL046-028----). A low-cairn crannog (11m N-S; 12m E-W; H 0.5m above the meadow) the surface of which consists of small angular boulders and some flagstones loosely set in the ground. To S, a short causeway (L 2-3m; Wth 1.2m) consisting of five or six flagstones laid side by side, leads into the shore. (Cross 1953, fig. 1; Fredengren 1998a, 31-3; 2002, KILC 023) 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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