Overview
Indicated — Lavareen is recorded as Crannog at Lavareen. It preserves evidence of a home or defended living place built on a natural or made island in a lake. The source record also describes the surviving evidence; its details are kept below.
Who lived here and when
The record identifies Indicated — Lavareen as Crannog. It does not safely name every person, family or worker who used it, or fix all phases to exact years.
Homes and daily life
The recorded type points to a home or defended living place built on a natural or made island in a lake. That explains the likely everyday purpose without claiming people, tools or customs that the exact record does not prove.
What was found
The saved source says: Just off the S end of the NE shore of the triangular Lough Donogher (max. dims c. 700m NW-SE: c. 500m NE-SW), which has its apex at NW. A small island (diam. c. 5m) is depicted only on the 1909 edition of the OS 6-inch map. Some quernstones from Lavareen townland, probably from this feature, were acquired by the National Museum of Ireland (Lucas 1957, 132). However, there is no visible evidence of a crannog in this area of Lough Donogher. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 16 January, 2017
Why it ended
The saved record does not establish one certain ending. A change in farming, water level, trade, fuel, ownership, route or settlement pattern may have ended the use, but no single cause is claimed without evidence.
Why it mattered
Indicated — Lavareen fixes a real piece of work or daily life to an exact place. Even where names are lost, its remains show how people obtained food and materials, organised land, made homes or adapted to the local ground.
History checked 15 August 2026 against the named sources below.
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