What is recorded here

Indicated is a small crannog in Drumlane Lough, County Cavan, where piles, logs, stones and animal bones still mark a lived island. A farmer once cut turf near that old lake bottom and drew out a fine iron cauldron, proving the water had hidden more than silence. The lough keeps the shape of a house, waiting for someone reckless enough to listen.

Not marked on OS 1836 or 1876 eds. Small subrectangular island (dims. c. 22m NNW-SSE; c. 15m WNW-ESE) in Drumlane Lough, c. 50m from the shoreline. Davies (NMI Survey 1942) recorded a row of piles around the edge of the island and some large horizontal logs near its centre. He also noted several stones and a few animal bones on the island. Mil-ligan (1885, 149-50) recorded a very fine iron cauldron found here by a farmer the previous summer 'when cutting turf about two and a-half feet below the surface of bog, which was formerly the bottom of the lake'. 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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