What is recorded here

The crannog in Finlough is in County Sligo, Ireland. It is a circular low mound at the boggy southern shoreline of Fin Lough, measuring 6.4 metres north to south and 7 metres east to west. The grass-covered surface rises 0.57 metres above the lake bed and slopes gradually into the water, with a band of rushes about 2 metres wide surrounding it.

At the boggy shoreline on the S edge of Fin Lough. A circular low-mound crannog (6.4m N-S; 7m E-W; H 0.57m above the lake-bed) on a lake-bed that is firm in places and marshy in others. The surface of the mound is grass-covered and fairly even with some stones visible in places and it slopes gradually down into the water. The E edge is the most well defined. The crannog is surrounded by a band of rushes (Wth c. 2m) that may mark its true edge. The S edge blends into the surrounding water-meadow. A possible crannog (SL025-137001-) is c. 50m to SSE. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Sligo' compiled by Ursula Egan, Elizabeth Byrne, Mary Sleeman with Sheila Ronan and Connie Murphy (Dublin Stationery Office, 2005). Date of upload: 18 January 2008

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