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CRANNOG? in LOUGH LUG in Ballygruby

CRANNOG? in LOUGH LUG

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Crannog is a man-made island in Lough Lug, Ballygruby, County Derry, built during the Early Christian period. People raised land from wet earth and stone to keep dry feet, store grain and pray away from floodwater. The water closed around the island like a living wall, yet the island remained stubbornly yours. That is the shape of Crannog: human will forcing a small dry world into a wet one.
The official Northern Ireland record identifies this as CRANNOG? in LOUGH LUG. Recorded period: E.CHRIST.. The official map point was placed at the centre of the recorded archaeological site from the source map reference.

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