The Lake Dwellings of Ireland: Or ancient lacustrine habitations of Erin, commonly called crannogs.Wood-Martin, W. G. (William Gregory)
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The Lake Dwellings of Ireland: Or ancient lacustrine habitations of Erin, commonly called crannogs.
Wood-Martin, W. G. (William Gregory)
Lake-dwellers and lake-dwellings -- Ireland
_Aberdeen_: Banchory, Loch Canmore. _Argyll_: Kielziebar, Ledaig,
Loch-na-Mial (Mull), Lochnell. _Forfar_: Loch of Forfar. _Inverness_:
Loch-in-Croy, Loch Lochy. _Lanark_: Greenknowe. _Linlithgow_: Loch Cot.
_Moray_, _Nairn and Elgin_: Loch Flemington, Lochindorb, Loch-in-Dunty,
Loch of the Clans, Loch Spinie. _Perth_: Loch Rannoch. _Ross_: Loch
Achilty, Loch of Kinellan. _Stirling_: Loch Lomond.
[49] Namely at Loughrea, county Galway; at Ballinlough, near Marble
Hill, same county; at Lough Nahinch, on the borders of Tipperary and
King’s County, and Lough Naneevin, West Galway.
[50] _Proceedings R. I. A._, vol. vii. p. 150. This crannog may be said
to form portion of the Strokestown group; excavations were made, and
several bronze pins found.
[51] _Journal Royal Hist. and Arch. Asso. of Ireland_, vol. ii. pp.
11-13 (4th Series)--G. H. Kinahan.
[52] Toome Bar, county Antrim; Rahans, county Monaghan; Drumkeery and
Cornagall, county Cavan; Lagore, near Dunshaughlin, county Meath;
Nahinch, county Tipperary; Cloonfinlough, county Roscommon; are
examples of crannogs which show visible traces of having been consumed
by fire, and some of them of having been rebuilt.
[53] _Journal Royal Hist. and Arch. Asso. of Ireland_, vol. v. (4th
Series), pp. 327-336.--W. F. Wakeman.
[54] “The framework was composed of oak logs, as shown in the sketch
(fig. 1. side elevation); the main sleepers, one on each side, were
principal pieces, and rested on the sand. These logs were made from
a large oak-tree, split in two, with the round part upwards; they
measured, when put together, twenty-three inches in diameter and
twenty-four feet in length; into these the upright pieces, or posts _B_
of the frame, were mortised, _p_; and the end of the post protruding
through the mortise in the sleeper _A_, was forelocked by a large
block of wood below, as shown, fig. 1. The mortises were roughly cut,
as if they had been made by a kind of blunt instrument.… The planks
which formed the sides _D_ were laid edgewise, one upon another, the
lower one resting in a groove cut in the sleeper _A_, as shown in fig.
2, and the but-ends on a log of wood mortised into the framework, as
in fig. 1. The planks butting home against the supports, … were more
firmly fixed by the two uprights, which passed through a hole in the
cross-beam _c_, fig. 1, and slipped into the mortise in the sleeper.”
[55] A somewhat similar “find” was dug up in one of the crannogs in
Loch Dowalton, Wigtownshire.--_Ancient Lake Dwellings of Scotland_, p.
49.
[56] “These jambs, of which there were six at each extremity, stood
on well-wrought foundation stones, but of course in a calcined
state.”--Schlieman, _Troja_, p. 80.
[57] _Archæologia_, vol. xxvi. p. 361. _Dublin Journal_, p. 381-83,
1836.
[58] _Journal Royal Hist. and Arch. Asso. of Ireland_, vol. i. p. 269.
[59] _Manners and Customs of the Ancient Irish_, pp. 31-2.
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