crannoge

The crannoge was another kind of habitation, and one evidently much used, and evincing no ordinary skill in its construction.

An Illustrated History of Ireland from AD 400 to 1800 Mary Frances Cusack 1864

But stone was not the only material used for places of defence or domestic dwellings; the most curious and interesting of ancient Irish habitations is the _crannoge_, a name whose precise etymology is uncertain, though there is little doubt that it refers in some way to the peculiar nature of the structure.

An Illustrated History of Ireland from AD 400 to 1800 Mary Frances Cusack 1864

It was found in the Ardkillen crannoge, near Strokestown, county

An Illustrated History of Ireland from AD 400 to 1800 Mary Frances Cusack 1864

The destruction of this crannoge is recorded by the Four Masters, A.D. 933, giving evidence that it was occupied up to that period.

An Illustrated History of Ireland from AD 400 to 1800 Mary Frances Cusack 1864

In 1560 we read that Teigue O'Rourke was drowned as he was going across a lake to sleep in a crannoge; and even so late as the sixteenth century, crannoges were declared to be the universal system of defence in the north of Ireland.

An Illustrated History of Ireland from AD 400 to 1800 Mary Frances Cusack 1864

Turlough O'Connor from a crannoge, after he had drowned his keepers; from which it would appear such structures might be used for prisons, and, probably, would be specially convenient for the detention of hostages.

An Illustrated History of Ireland from AD 400 to 1800 Mary Frances Cusack 1864

Piles of wood, or heaps of stone and bones driven into or heaped on the soil, formed the support of the crannoge.

An Illustrated History of Ireland from AD 400 to 1800 Mary Frances Cusack 1864

Sometimes they are connected with the mainland by a causeway, but usually there is no appearance of any; and a small canoe has been, with but very few exceptions, discovered in or near each crannoge.

An Illustrated History of Ireland from AD 400 to 1800 Mary Frances Cusack 1864

Was there an ancient bronze-smith shop in the neighbourhood; or were these not rather the relics of a burned crannoge that had formerly existed in this lake, within two miles of the future metropolis of Scotland?

Archaeological Essays, Vol. 1 James Young Simpson 1840

Round this artificial islet or crannoge thus formed was a stone wall raised on oak piles.

The Antiquity of Man Charles Lyell 1836