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Crannog in Rivory

Crannog

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Situated in deep water in Carrafin Lough, c. 45m from the shoreline. Excavated by Davies in 1938. He found (Davies 1942, 28-9) that the core of the island was a natural gravel ridge running N-S which was considerably extended E and W with logs and stones. On the exposed W side of the island Davies found a well-preserved stone kerb and at E three visible layers of radial logs with cross-logs between, and on top of this structure a criss-cross log-floor with some stones. Finds from the crannóg included burnt animal bone, teeth, hazelnuts, decorated sherds of pottery, querns, a stone axe, a single-bladed iron axe with socket-hole, a hollowed pebble, a 'fairly recent' brass spur and two ring-headed pins. Local tradition maintains that this was the first stronghold of Owen Roe O'Neill, which he later abandoned for Clogh Oughter Castle (CV020-060----).
Situated in deep water in Carrafin Lough, c. 45m from the shoreline. Excavated by Davies in 1938. He found (Davies 1942, 28-9) that the core of the island was a natural gravel ridge running N-S which was considerably extended E and W with logs and stones. On the exposed W side of the island Davies found a well-preserved stone kerb and at E three visible layers of radial logs with cross-logs between, and on top of…

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record CV015-060

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  • Stephen Burton, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
  • Adam Simpson, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Oliver Dixon, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Peter Gerken, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Algirdas at Lithuanian Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons · Public domain
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