What is recorded here

Indicated is a small circular crannog in Aghavoher Lough, County Cavan, where a log platform once rose about twenty metres across the water. Davies found animal bones, shells, quern fragments, iron, a jug handle and enough unglazed pottery to identify seven pots, suggesting the island was lived upon rather than merely passed. A 19th-century stone cottage may have stood there later, joining human hands across centuries in the same narrow circle of wood, water and clay.

Small circular island (diam. c. 20m) in Aghavoher Lough, c. 1 km from the shoreline marked on all OS eds. Davies recorded that it was apparently a log platform and detailed finds from the site including several animal bones and shells, hones, two pieces of quern, a block of iron, a jug handle and c. twenty sherds of unglazed crannóg pottery from which seven pots were identified. He noted the former presence of a 19th-century stone cottage on the island and contemporary glazed sherds and pieces of an iron cauldron. It was suggested that the crannóg was occupied principally in the 16th century. 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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