What is recorded here

Indicated is a circular overgrown cairn on the north shore of Drumreaske Lough in County Monaghan, Ireland. It still stands fifteen metres wide and one metre high inside flooded woodland, though no wooden piling remains visible. The lough stretches two hundred to two hundred and thirty metres north to south and one hundred to two hundred and twenty metres east to west, giving the cairn a broad water-backed setting. It may have been a crannog, a small island home or marker, but the missing piles leave that purpose in shadow.

Located at the N shore of the subrectangular Drumreaske Lough (dims c. 200-230m N-S; c. 100m E-W at N to c. 220m E-W at S). It is depicted a fairly large island on the 1908 edition of the OS 6-inch map. This is a circular overgrown cairn (diam. c. 15m; H 1m) in flooded woodland but there is no piling evident. 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: 13 December 2017

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