What is recorded here

Quarry is a twenty-metre artificial island floating one hundred metres from the Castlefore Lough shore, built from earth and stone with wooden piles still gripping the water. It is an overgrown crannog, a place where someone stacked land out of nothing and lived inside the lake. The wood rots and reappears with the tide, marking the border between the made world and the drowning one.

Situated c. 100m from the NE shore of triangular Castlefore Lough (max. dims c. 800m ENE-WSW; c. 450m NNW-SSE at E). This is an overgrown and artificial circular island of earth and stone (diam. 20m) with intermittently visible evidence of wooden piles around the perimeter. See the attached view from the E. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Leitrim' compiled by Michael J. Moore (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2003). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 23 September 2008

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