What is recorded here
Obelisk is a crannog in Cavetown OR Ballynahoogh, County Roscommon, Ireland. It occupies the narrower eastern end of Cavetown Lough, sitting fifty metres from the eastern shore and one hundred and forty metres from the southern shore. The circular stone island measures seventeen metres across and one metre high, carrying an eighteenth or nineteenth-century limestone memorial rather than timber remains. Another crannog lies sixty metres to the north-northwest.
In Cavetown Lough (dims. c. 1.5 km E-W; c. 300-700m N-S), at the narrower E end c. 50m from the E shore and c. 140m from the S shore. Circular overgrown island (diam.17m; H 1m) composed of stone and carrying an 18th or 19th-century limestone memorial. There is no evidence of timber construction. Crannog (RO010-034----) is c. 60m to the NNW.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
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