What is recorded here

Crannog in Lough Gara is a crannog in Lough Gara, County Sligo, Ireland. It occupies a slightly dry circular patch, 4.5m north-south and 3.8m east-west, nearly level with the surrounding wet meadow below an earlier shoreline of Lough Gara. The site lies on the north shore of the bay between Derrymore Island and Derrybeg townland, where it joins a group of eight possible crannogs and one crannog.

In a wet meadow, below an earlier shoreline of Lough Gara, on the N shore of the bay between Derrymore Island and Derrybeg townland. A slightly dry circular patch (4.5m N-S; 3.8m E-W), nearly level with the surrounding wet meadow. It is one of a group of eight possible crannogs (see SL047-012002-; SL047-012003-; SL047-012004-; SL047-012005-; SL047-012007-; SL047-012008-; SL047-012009-) and one crannog (SL047-012001-) in the small bay between Derrymore Island and Derrybeg townland. (Cross 1953, fig. 1; 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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