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Crannog in Lough Gara

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In a wet meadow, on the N side of a bay, below an earlier shoreline of Lough Gara. This crannog is 33m E of a possible crannog (SL047-012002-) and W of a possible crannog (SL047-012004-). A line of 31 rounded boulders (diam. 0.3-0.6m) extends S from the shoreline into the lake for 12m N-S. On E side of these boulders is an irregular dump of soil (19.9m N-S; 11.7m E-W). The remains are possibly a small peninsula jutting out from the shoreline, perhaps a jetty. One of a group of eight possible crannogs (see SL047-012002-; SL047-012004-; SL047-012005-; SL047-012006-; SL047-012007-; SL047-012008-; SL047-012009-) and one crannog (SL047-012001-) in the small bay between Derrymore Island and Derrybeg townland. (Cross 1953, fig. 1; Fredengren 2002, KILA 025) 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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