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Crannog

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The crannog in Knocknashammer OR Cloverhill is in County Sligo, Ireland. The Sligo Crannog project visited this overgrown site near the lake's northeast end in 2000. It contains an oval cairn twenty-five point seven metres long and nineteen point two metres wide, with a smaller eastern cairn of loosely packed sandstones surrounded by an uneven stone platform. A linear drystone-walled feature on the north side may be the remains of a jetty.
Visited by Sligo Crannog project 2000. This site is located in the NE end of the lake c.10m from the shoreline. It is overgrown. Comprises an oval cairn (L 25.7m E-W, 19.2m N-S, H 2.8m). The mid cairn is located slightly to the E (L 7m E-W, 5.8m N-S) and consists of a dense concentration of loosely packed sandstones. It is surrounded by a an uneven platform of stones (Wth 11.90m W, 11.20m N). On the N side of the site is a linear drystone-walled feature (L 5m, Wth 1.10m, H 0.85m) which may be the remains of a jetty. Compiled by: Geraldine Stout Date of upload: 14 August 2013

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