What is recorded here

Stony Islands are a long, narrow crannog and a smaller companion island in Lough Ramor, County Cavan, built or shaped by people across the Bronze Age and medieval periods. The larger island measures about sixty metres long and fifteen metres wide, while the second lies only twenty metres away, separated by a channel narrow enough that the two may have belonged to one living arrangement. Water gave the place its defence, its food and its solitude, making the islands less like rock than like a room set adrift in the lake.

Long narrow island (dims. c. 60m WNW-ESE; c. 12m NNW-SSW) in Lough Ramor, c.120m from the shoreline and 20m WNW of a second island (CV039-039----). 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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