What is recorded here

Crannog in Cornagran sits seventy metres from the Cavan shoreline, a small island where oak piles still radiate around a central cairn. Davies found burnt bone fragments and animal teeth scattered across the SW and W shores, suggesting people lived there, fed there, and perhaps lost someone there. The lake swallowed the house but never erased the shape of the hands that built it.

In Lough Gowna, c. 70m from the shoreline. Davies (ITA Survey 1941) recorded that a crannóg-cairn occupies the SW side and centre of the island. He recorded piles and radial logs around the cairn, additional oak piles located on the W and NW shores, finds of teeth of ox, sheep and horse, and fragments of burnt bones. 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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