What is recorded here

Indicated is a submerged crannog in Lough Ervey, County Cavan, marked by a circular cairn twenty-four metres across and scattered pins, a pewter flagon and plate recovered from its waters. The lake has eaten most of the structure, leaving only a ridge of stones and memory where wooden piles once bit into the mud. It is the kind of place that resists explanation, presenting itself as a wound in the water rather than a home.

Located in deep water in the subrectangular Lough Ervey (dims c. 550m ENE-WSW; c. 180-230m NNW-SSE) close to the SW end where the lake extends N-S (dims c. 450m NNW-SSE; c. 90-100m ENE-WSW) is but this part is reduced in length from its depiction on the 1836 edition of the OS 6-inch map (L c. 630m). It is on the county boundary with Meath (ME002-007----). This s a circular overgrown cairn (diam. 24m N-S; 22m E-W; H 1.5m over water level) that has evidence of a stone kerb and wooden piles on the perimeter N-E. Some artefacts, including four early medieval pins and a late medieval pewter flagon and plate, from the crannog are now in NMI (Lucas 1958 136-7; 1960, 33). Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 31 August 2018

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