_Lough Crannog._--Judging from the name, there was formerly an artificial island in this lake. _Lough Aconnick_ and _Derreskit Lough_.[223] At a meeting of the Royal Historical and Archæological Association of Ireland, held at Portrush, July, 1885, a paper on the crannogs of the county Cavan was read by Mr. Seaton Milligan of Belfast, who stated that he had at various times visited several of those structures, which he considered to be more numerous in Cavan than in any other county in Ireland, owing perhaps to the great number of lakes scattered over its surface. He described some eleven sites that lay within a radius of seven or eight miles from the town of Cavan; and was of opinion that their outer row of piling was generally formed of oak, and the inner circles of smaller stakes of hazel and sallow. A looped spear-head of bronze was shown by him, and he minutely described two canoes dug out of a bog on the shores of a lake containing a crannog, and situated near Heath Lodge. A bronze rapier found near a crannog in Lough Oughter was also exhibited by him, and a description given of the castle of the same name, where Bishop Bedell was protected by the Irish during the troublous times of 1641. This castle stands on an island surrounded by piling, and bearing the impress of having been an ancient crannog whereon the more modern structure was erected (_ante_, p. 155). The exact locality of two sites in the province of Ulster still remains undefined, i.e. _Loch-da-damh_ (_ante_, p. 158), and the crannog attacked by Sir Henry Sidney in 1566 (_ante_, pp. 146-8). PROVINCE OF LEINSTER. COUNTY MEATH. [Illustration: Fig. 208.--Fusus antiquus.] _Lagore_, otherwise _Dunshaughlin_. (See _ante_, pp. 23-5, 157, for the discovery and historical account of this celebrated crannog.)--In the kitchen midden were bones of the _Bos longifrons_, _Bos frontosus_, four-horned goat, wolf, dog, bear,[224] red deer, wild boar, sheep, fox, horse, &c.; also a sea-shell (_Fusus antiquus_), here figured one-third its real size. This relic is preserved in the Petrie Collection, R. I. A. It is curious to find a shell of any marine species within the bounds of a crannog situated many miles inland; and with it were shells of limpets and baccinums, together with numerous portions of fictile ware.[225] Around the crannog were several single-tree canoes, and near the centre there were two human skeletons lying at full length; the country people would not allow them to be removed; one specimen was, however, secured, and deposited in the Museum, R. I. A.[226] _Bohermeen._--_Ante_, pp. 82 and 171. COUNTY WESTMEATH. During the working of the Commission for the Arterial Drainage of Ireland a crannog was discovered in this county, but its site is unidentified.