What is recorded here

Indicated is a circular crannog on Lough Rinn in County Leitrim, built from intertwined timbers around a stony centre and marked by a crude northern slipway. Medieval pottery and metalwork emerged from the site, proving people lived there before the lake shrank and a causeway joined the island to the mainland. The wooden band still holds its shape beneath grass and memory, waiting for someone to walk across the water and ask who built it.

Situated close to the W shore of Lough Rinn (dims c. 3.8 km N-S; c. 200-400m E-W) in its central area and presently joined to the mainland by a causeway. This could be an island represented on an estate map (Wogan 1750, 23) as the lake appears to have been wider on the W side at that time. It is an overgrown circular island (diam. 22.5m NE-SW; H 1.3m) surrounded by a band (Wth 0.5-2m) of intertwined timbers, some cut square (dims 0.3m x 0.3m; L 1.5m plus). The crannog has a stony centre (diam. 10m; total H 1.95m) and there is a crude slipway at the N edge. Some medieval metalwork and pottery were found at this monument (Lucas 1972, 190, 222-3). The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Leitrim' compiled by Michael J. Moore (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2003). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 23 September 2008 Amended: 6 January 2020

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