What is recorded here

Crannog in Tullaghbeg is an artificial island marked by oak piles, built to lift life above the Blackwater wetland. It may have served as a home, a refuge or a boundary marker, though no surviving name or date makes that certain. The oak piles still stand where water once closed around them, proving that the site was made rather than found.

Site identified by the Geological Survey of Ireland as 'crannoge with oak pils' (GSI Memoirs Environmental Sciences Unit 1987, 23; Irish Archaeological Wetland Unit (UCD) 1993, 3:6) (Irish Archaeological Wetland Unit (UCD) 1995, Typescript of Catalogue of Sites in Bord Na Mona Blackwater Works Co. Offaly). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Offaly' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 23 May 2011

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