Rings of shale, from Wigtownshire,[2324] have been figured, as also a ring of stone from a crannog at Glenluce.
The M'Leods still held the fortalice or crannog called Eilean Grudidh, in Loch Maree, about a mile distant from Letterewe.
It is close to a picturesque loch bearing the same name, on which are two small islands, one of which seems to have been a crannog or island fortalice, probably a refuge of Mac Gille Riabhaich in times of danger.
The small island near the shore with a few bushes on it (see illustration) is of artificial origin; it was a crannog or fortress of the MacBeaths, and afterwards of the M'Leods.
Culinellan near Kenlochewe, at the Poolewe manse, and on the crannog or artificial island on Loch Kernsary.
On this crannog about fifty tons of bones are said to have been collected by the peasants and sold at two shillings per cwt.
About the same time the crannog in Ballinderry Lough, near Moate, county of Meath, became known, and appears to have yielded a large quantity of bones and antiquities, together with one or two canoes.
The surface of the crannog was occupied by a strong substantial building (=Fig.
The crannog of Cloonfinlough in Connaught had a triple stockade of oak piles, connected by horizontal stretchers and enclosing an area 130 ft.
The crannog of Lagore, the first discovered in Ireland, was examined and described by Sir William Wilde in 1840.
The crannogof Lochlee, near Tarbolton, Ayrshire, explored by Dr R.
Among the few remains of lacustrine settlements in England and Wales, some are suggestive of the typical crannog structure.
Under the year 1246 it is recorded that Turlough O'Connor made his escape from the crannog of Lough Leisi, and drowned his keepers.
The same crannog furnished a piece of ash wood five inches square, which had been preserved, as were all the other objects, by the peat, on which was carved a triskelion (fig.
Swastika on pin and triskelion on plank, crannog of Lochlee, figs.
In the Crannog of Lochlee, near Tarbolton, a bronze pin was found (fig.
According to the same authority, a sub-chief of the present county Monaghan, named Mac Kenna, resided in a crannogeither on the lake of Glaslough or that of Erny in the parish of Donagh.
It is curious to find a shell of any marine species within the bounds of a crannogsituated many miles inland; and with it were shells of limpets and baccinums, together with numerous portions of fictile ware.
In Loughmacnean, county Fermanagh, are several artificial islets, one of which is called “Crannog Island.
An artificial causeway, leading from the western margin of the lough, appears to have formerly connected the crannog with terra firma.
Oghamic scribings have been found on a stone in thecrannog of Ballydoolough, and on bone pins and other ornaments in the crannogs of Ballinderry and the Strokestown group.
In 1541 the eastern crannog in the lake of Glencar, on the borders of Sligo and Leitrim, was taken by one sept of the O’Rourkes from another.
Nor is there any reason why these people should not have scratched archaic markings on the pebbles as they certainly cut them on stones in a Scottish crannog of the Iron age.
These cups, or cupules, or ecuelles occur, not only at Dumbuck, but in association with a Scottish crannog of the Iron age, admirably described by Dr.
Munro, apart from his most valuable books of crannog lore, I owe his kind attention to my private inquiries, and hope that I successfully represent his position and arguments.
As people certainly did live on these structures of Langbank and Dunbuie during the broch and crannog age (centuries 5-12) it really matters not to our purpose why they did so, or how they did so.
We have thus made good the point that an isolated cupped stone, and an isolated stone inscribed with concentric circles round a cup, do occur in a crannog containing objects of the stone, bronze, and iron ages.
Moreover, the appearance of an unique and previously unheard-of set of inscribed stones, in a site of the usual broch and crannog period, is not invariably ascribed to forgery, even by the most orthodox archaeologists.
If one stone crannog had a stone causeway, why should this ancient inhabited cairn or round tower not possess a stone causeway?
He tentatively suggests that the stones may have been used, perhaps, for the stone causeway now laid along the bank of the recently made canal, from a point close to the crannog to the railway.
A superstition which has certainly endured to the nineteenth century may obviously have existed among the Picts, or whoever they were, of the crannog and broch period on Clyde.
The exploration of the site is much interfered with by the rising of the tide, which covers the crannog for a considerable time every day.
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