Crannog in Tomassan, County Cavan

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What is recorded here

Small circular island in Cuillaghan Lough, c. 150m from the shoreline. Marked on all OS eds. Hall recorded digging into a mound at the centre of the island and finding a substantial bed of ashes and debris incorporating coarse black sherds of pottery, fragments of quernstones, large quantities of broken bones and a grooved stone. An oak dugout canoe was discovered at that time on the SE shore.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record CV010-023

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