What is recorded here

Crannog in Lough Gara is a crannog in Lough Gara, County Sligo, Ireland. It occupies a wet meadow below an earlier shoreline on the north side of a small bay between Derrymore Island and Derrybeg townland. An oval slightly dry patch measuring 7.2 metres north-south and 9.8 metres east-west may mark this small crannog, which belongs to a group of eight possible crannogs in the bay.

In a wet meadow, below an earlier shoreline of Lough Gara, on the N side of a small bay between Derrymore Island and Derrybeg townland. An oval slightly dry patch (7.2m N-S; 9.8m E-W) may indicate the location of this small crannog which was marked by Cross (1953, fig. 1). It is one of a group of eight possible crannogs (see SL047-012002-; SL047-012003-; SL047-012004-; SL047-012005-; SL047-012006-; SL047-012008-; SL047-012009-) and one crannog (SL047-012001-) in the bay. (Fredengren 2002, KILA 029) The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Sligo' compiled by Ursula Egan, Elizabeth Byrne, Mary Sleeman with Sheila Ronan and Connie Murphy (Dublin Stationery Office, 2005). Date of upload: 18 January 2008

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