What is recorded here

Indicated is a crannog in Lavey Lough, sixty metres from the Cavan shore. Davies found close-set piles on its south-west edge and a thin strip of dark earth holding burnt bone, proof that people lived there before the water closed the gap. A second small island waits two hundred metres west, perhaps another room in the same forgotten house.

In Lavey Lough, c. 60m from the shoreline. Davies (ITA Survey 1942) described it as a seemingly natural 'fairly large island... covered with small stones'. He recorded several close-set piles on the SW shore and a few inches of humus containing scraps of burnt bone. A smaller island, also reputedly a crannóg (CV026-017----), lies 220m to WNW. 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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