What is recorded here

Indicated is a crannog in Lough Key, County Roscommon, Ireland. It occupies Erris Bay at the southwest corner of the lough, about seventy metres from the southern shore. The circular island measures sixteen metres across and rises one point two metres above the water. Earth, stones and horizontally laid timbers form its visible structure.

In the triangular Erris Bay (dims. c. 500m E-W at S; c. 200-400m N-S) at the SW corner of Lough Key, and c. 70m from a peninsula on the bay's S shore. Circular overgrown island (diam. 16m; H 1.2m) of earth and stones with horizontally laid timbers visible in the water at E. A underwater shelf (Wth c. 3m) surrounds the island. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

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