What is recorded here

Thirty-five metres from the east shore of Lough Rinn, a twenty-metre island holds a flat-topped cairn twice as wide and three metres high. The 1907 map named it Lady Elizabeths Island, but no human hand has touched the stones since the water retired. Whatever Elizabeth claimed, the lake took it back. The cairn still stands, waiting for someone to remember why it was built.

A small island described as ‘Lady Elizabeth’s Island’ is depicted only on the 1907 edition of the OS 6-inch map c. 35m from the E shore of Lough Rinn (dims c. 3.8km N-S; c. 200-400m E-W). This is an overgrown island, irregular in plan (diam. of base c. 20m) with a flat topped cairn (diam. of base c. 10m; H 2-3m) in the centre. There is no evidence of timber construction around the base of the cairn, although it is possible that the cairn obscures such evidence. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 7 January 2020

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