Crannog in Rinn, County Leitrim

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What is recorded here

Situated towards the S end of the low-lying marshy area known as Lough Sallagh – Sallach, dirty - a marshy lake now reduced to a small triangle of open water (dims c. 200m N-S; c. 140m E-W) on the N-S Cloone or Lurga River. This is only the S end of a larger oval lake (dims c. 600m NNE-SSW; c. 270m) as represented on the 1835 edition of the OS 6-inch map. An oval island (dims c. 30m E-W; c. 15m N-S) is represented on the 1835 and 1907 editions of the map. No archaeological feature was visible at the location in 1991 (SMR file) in the marsh, but this area had largely been reclaimed by 2012 (OSAP).

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record LE036-004

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