Crannog, Saleen, Co. Mayo
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Settlement Sites
In the townland of Saleen in County Mayo, somewhere beneath or at the edge of a lake or wetland, lies a crannog, one of the artificial or partially artificial islands that Irish communities constructed and inhabited from the Bronze Age well into the early medieval period.
The basic principle was straightforward: pile timber, stone, peat, and brushwood into shallow water, consolidate the platform with stakes, and you had a defensible, private dwelling place accessible only by boat or a submerged causeway. Thousands of these sites are recorded across Ireland, yet each one carries its own unanswered questions about who built it, when, and how long it was in use.
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