Crannog, Creevy, Co. Mayo
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Settlement Sites
In the townland of Creevy in County Mayo, a lake holds the remains of a crannog, one of the artificial or semi-artificial islands that early medieval Irish communities built from layers of timber, peat, and brushwood, then used as fortified homesteads or places of refuge.
These structures were typically inhabited between roughly the sixth and twelfth centuries, though many were reused or adapted in later periods, and their presence in a landscape almost always signals that the surrounding land and water were considered worth defending or controlling.
Beyond the classification itself, the specific history of this particular crannog, its builders, its period of use, and whatever material remains survive beneath the waterline or at the surface, remains unrecorded in any publicly available form at present. The site is listed as a known monument, which places it under the protections afforded to such features under Irish heritage legislation, but the details that would allow a fuller account have not yet been made accessible.