What is recorded here

Stony Island is a small circular crannog in Lough Oughter, holding a bronze-age cairn and piles that suggest people once shaped the water into a home. It sits close enough to the shore for a determined boat yet far enough to feel chosen, as if its makers wanted privacy without surrendering the world. The preserved pot and stone stack imply that this was not a passing mistake but a sustained place of life, memory or ritual.

Small roughly circular island (diam. c. 30m) situated in Lough Oughter in a strait between the townlands of Derinish More and Eonish, in shallow water, c. 80m from the shoreline. Davies (ITA Survey 1942) described a cairn (diam. c. 5.4m; H c. 2.4m) encircled with piles situated on the central part of the island. A pot which Davies dated to the Late Bronze Age was found at the site. (Milligan 1885, 151) The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cavan' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1995). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 22 December 2008

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