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Crannog in Cloondart

Crannog
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What is recorded here

Marked as a small feature (diam. c. 5m) on the 1914 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, and situated c. 60m from the W shore in the N arm (dims. c. 400m NW-SE; c. 300m NE-SW) of Errit Lough. A number of timbers were visible on the lake floor in 1988 when the lake water had been lowered during drainage of the River Lung (SMR file). It is not visible above the surface to-day. Crannog (RO019-005----) is c. 200m to the SE.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record RO019-004

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Photo credits
  • National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
  • David Farrell Photography / Western People, www.westernpeople.ie
  • Golfing in Ireland; photographer not stated, Source publisher
  • David Purchase, Geograph · Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0
  • Mike Searle, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Willow, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 2.5
  • Andreas F. Borchert, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
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