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Site/Artefact Carrowmore Type Crannóg Site Number SMR Mayo 098 00701 National Grid Reference 097690 East 276490 North Map ( 1:50000) Ordnance Survey Ireland, Discovery Series 37 List of Sites and Artefacts Click Here Interactive Map Click Here

Diagram of crannog on Moher Lake (after Morahan, 2001)

Description
Crannógs are artificially constructed islands on lakes, turloughs or other inland water ways. The term derives from the Gaelic words crann meaning tree and óg meaning young, reflecting the large amounts of timber used in the construction of the surrounding palisade (Corlett, 2001).

The crannóg in Moher Lake was constructed on a large stone pile. Its edge is partly bordered by an enclosing wall no more than three courses high externally but scattered internally. There is a manmade stone lined dock 8m long and 2m wide in the SE section (Morahan, L. 2001). The use of crannogs stretching from the Bronze Age into the Medieval and later times has artefactual veracity but it is from the Early Historic period and Viking Age that abundant archaeological and historical evidence for entire settlement systems on lakes, with contemporary crannogs, island ringforts and cashels, promontory forts and monastic islands implying a rich and complex lakeland settlement emerges (O'Sullivan, 1998).

Excavation Details
Not Available

Access/Ownership
Private

References

• Corlett, C. 2001 Antiquities of West Mayo, Wordwell, Wicklow, p.57
• Morahan, L. 2001 Croagh Patrick, Co. Mayo archaeology, landscape and people, Croagh Patrick Archaeological Committee, Mayo, p.112
• O'Sullivan, A. 1998 The Archaeology of Lake settlement in Ireland, Royal Irish Academy, Dublin, p.1

Check out the following sections of the website for related information:

• Loch Awe Crannogs
• Loch Glashan Crannog

Mayo Sites and Artefacts

1. Mayo Abbey 2. Balla 3. Ballintubber Abbey 4. Tóchar Phadraig 5. Aghagower 6. Lankhill 7. Boheh 8. Croagh Patrick Summit 9. Carrownalurgan 10. Ardoley 11. Kiladangan 12. Glaspatrick 13. Shrawee 14. Clare Island - Strake 15. Clare Island - Lecarrow 16. Caher Island 17. Durless

18. Carrowmore 19. Knappaghmanagh 20. Cushalogurt 21. Carrowkeel Ecclesiastical Remains 22. Thornhill 23. Carrowkeel Murrisk 24. Carrowkeel Cahernaran 25. Carrowmacloughlin Cairn-1 26. Carrowmacloughlin Cairn-2 27. Carrowmacloughlin Cairn-3 28. Carrowmacloughlin/ Glencally/ Teevenacroaghy 29. Carrowmacloughlin Sweathouses 30. Glaspatrick Holy Well

31. Glaspatrick Rath-1 32. Glaspatrick Early Ecclesiastical Remains 33. Glaspatrick Ringfort 34. Glaspatrick Rath-2 35. Glaspatrick Ecclesiatical Remains 36. Glaspatrick Altar 38. Glaspatrick Graveyard 39. Murrisk Demesne Standing Stone-1 40. Murrisk Demesne Standing Stone-2 41. Murrisk Demesne Standing Stone-3 42. Teevenacroaghy

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