. Manual of the geology of Ireland. View looking S. cLown, Glens CogTuccn/, Shewing Dri/t/bcvr- cucrossthemoLrffv of the. Valley (c^boiAX, 26O) in/ the nitf/sinr-^. Twelve Pin&3€oarctazri$ ZooJcina _£ {BenruzbeclaJ) Crannogs. 279 found in deep water. Some were built entirely of stoneothers of wood, but most of them, of a combination ofstones and piles. Some seem to have been made of basket work and sods, and a few stand on platforms likethe Swiss lake-dwellings. The Stone Crannogs have been recorded in Connaughtand Ulster. The finest and largest is Hags Castle inLough Mask, oppos
. Manual of the geology of Ireland. View looking S. cLown, Glens CogTuccn/, Shewing Dri/t/bcvr- cucrossthemoLrffv of the. Valley (c^boiAX, 26O) in/ the nitf/sinr-^. Twelve Pin&3€oarctazri$ ZooJcina _£ {BenruzbeclaJ) Crannogs. 279 found in deep water. Some were built entirely of stoneothers of wood, but most of them, of a combination ofstones and piles. Some seem to have been made of basket work and sods, and a few stand on platforms likethe Swiss lake-dwellings. The Stone Crannogs have been recorded in Connaughtand Ulster. The finest and largest is Hags Castle inLough Mask, opposite the mouth of the Robe river, County-Mayo. This seems to have been built in connection witha small rock or island ; outside its circular wall is verydeep water. Those recorded in west Galway are, one ina lake in the island of Gorumna, a second in Lough Cam tothe north of Roundstone, and a third (see Fig. Plate No. vi.)in Lough Bola, Irrisaniagh ; to the SE. of Roundstone a fewothers also occur. In Ulster they occur in the lakes ofthe rocky districts of Antrim and Donegal. None ofthese have as yet been excavated, and their internalarrangement is unknown. Accordin
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