What is recorded here
Indicated is a small oval crannog in Lough Sheelin, County Cavan, measuring about 28 metres east-west and 12 metres north-south. It sits 100 metres from the shoreline and resisted mapping on the 1836 and 1876 Ordnance Survey sheets, emerging only in later editions. That delay suggests the lake kept its own secret, hiding a place people may have lived, forgotten or deliberately withheld from official sight.
Not marked on OS 1836 or 1876 eds. Small oval-shaped island (dims. c. 28m E-W; c.12m N-S) in Lough Sheelin, c. 100m from the shoreline. Marked on OS latest edition
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cavan' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1995). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload/revision: 22 December 2008
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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