What is recorded here

Ilaunacashlaun is a crannog in County Galway, Ireland. It is an artificial island platform, likely built with timber, earth and rock to raise a home above wet ground. People may have lived there when land was crowded or danger was near, looking down at the water instead of standing beneath it.

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