What is recorded here

Killeen Lake in County Galway holds a triangular island about twenty metres across, still tangled in overgrowth and never properly entered. People have long whispered that the island is a crannog, though no wall, hut or cut stone has ever shown through the green. It may be a natural bump in the lake bottom, or it may be the last room of a drowned house, waiting for someone brave enough to wade in and ask it what it remembers.

In E half of Killeen Lake. Killanin (1954, 101) records that 'the island in [this lake] is reputed to be a crannog'. The 2nd ed. of OS 6-inch map (1898) shows two islets, the easternmost and more substantial of which is a roughly triangular island (c. 20m by c. 15m) mantled in overgrowth. This is probably the island referred to, though no archaeological features are visible. Inspected from lake shore only. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. I - West Galway'. Compiled by Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

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