What is recorded here

Crannog in Drumbo is a submerged stone ring on the northeast shore of Rahans Lough, rising only twenty centimetres above the water but extending a metre deep beneath it. Boylan found timbers there in 1954 when a dug-out canoe appeared in the lake, though no wood remained visible by 1983, only animal bones scattered in the shallows. The lake is small, barely a kilometre long, yet it hid a household for centuries before giving up its secrets to a passing canoe.

Situated in the shallows on the NE shoreline of Rahans Lough (L c. 1km N-S; c. 80-160m E-W), which has a bulbous (dims c. 330-c. 400m) northern end. This is a small cairn (diam. 5m; H 0.2m over water) but the cairn extends below the water level (D 0.5-1m) c. 10m to the W and S. This is probably the small crannog described by Boylan (1967, 362-3) in 1954 as having timbers when a dug-out canoe was discovered in the lake. There were no structural timbers visible in 1983, but animal bones were present. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Monaghan' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1986). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of revision: 27 July 2017

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