What is recorded here

Crannog in Lough Gara is a crannog in Lough Gara, County Sligo, Ireland. It occupies a water meadow below an earlier shoreline and lies 83 metres east of another possible crannog. A long irregular arm 41 metres long, 11.8 metres wide and 0.42 metres high stretches across the bay, mostly overgrown with grass. Fine-grained sand mixed with charcoal appears at its south edge.

In a water meadow, below an earlier shoreline of Lough Gara and c. 83m E of another possible crannog (SL047-018003-). A long irregular arm (L 41m; Wth 11.8m; max. H 0.42m), most of which is overgrown with grass, stretches out across the bay. At the S perimeter, the underlying sediments of fine-grained sand mixed with charcoal is exposed. It is one of a group of six possible crannogs (SL047-016----; SL047-018001-; SL047-018002-; SL047-018003-; SL047-018006-) and three crannogs (SL047-015----; SL047-017----; SL047-018005-) in this bay. (Cross 1953, fig. 1; Fredengren 2002, KILA 006) 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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