What is recorded here

Crannog is a low, sod-covered mound at the confluence of two rivers in County Galway, reduced from a water-bound island to dry land by modern drainage. It measures barely a metre high and eighteen metres across, yet it still marks the exact spot where human hands shaped earth against flowing water. The rivers no longer surround it, but they still meet beside it, carrying the shape of the old boundary in their current.

On a low ridge at the confluence of two rivers; the surrounding land is now totally dry due to drainage. Marked on 3rd ed. of OS 6-inch map (1930) as a small oval mound (c. 20m by c. 15m). What is visible is a low poorly preserved sod-covered subcircular mound (N-S 18.2m, E-W 17.7m, H 0.9m). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

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