What is recorded here

Indicated is a small circular crannog in Putigan Lough, County Cavan, sitting forty-five metres from the shore. Davies recorded an eighteen-metre mound holding a broken log platform and scattered piles, proof that people built a home suspended in water rather than buried in soil. The lake still keeps that shape, waiting for someone to imagine the footsteps, fires and conversations that vanished beneath its surface.

Marked on all OS eds. Small circular island in Putigan Lough, c. 45m from the shoreline. Davies (NMI Survey 1941) recorded a mound (diam c. 18.2m;H c. 1.5m) with the remains of a horizontal log platform and a few piles on the island. 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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