What is recorded here

Six feet below the bog surface near Carrigkerry, wooden piling sticks still stand in dark water. A man found them in 1937 and wrote to Dublin, believing he had touched the edge of a lost crannog. The museum replied that Maher agreed, then silence took the story back. The bog kept its shape, held its breath, and waited for someone brave enough to ask again.

A letter was sent to the National Museum of Ireland in 1937 reporting the discovery of 'piling sticks' at bottom of a bog '6ft from surface' (NMI Top. Files). In reply Adolf Maher suggests these may be the remains of a crannog. The location of the find was given as 'in vicinity of Carrickerry' (ibid.). Nothing further is known of this discovery. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 20 August 2012

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