Plate XLV.
General View of the half-drained Lake of Loughavilly.
Pad, or Boat Lough, close to Lough Eyes, is a very small lake, in which is the site of a crannog, not yet explored on account of the depth of the water.
Monea.—See ante, pp. [69-70].
Wolf Loch.—There is said to have been formerly a crannog in this lake.
Loughavilly (the lake of the old tree), now nearly drained, is represented ([plate XLV.]) as seen from the south, with Topped Mountain in the background. The piled mound visible in the middle distance, to the right, is the remains of a crannog that appeared to belong to an age when stone implements were in use, judging from the character of the few antiquities found within it. In the summer of 1871 there was still observable a small portion of the original lake dwelling. “This consisted of a roughly squared block of oak, measuring four feet three inches in length, by one foot in breadth. It was nine inches in thickness, and exhibited upon what appeared to have been its upper surface two quadrangular mortise-holes, one of which was a square, six inches by six inches, and four inches in depth; the other, an oblong, six inches by five inches, and somewhat shallower than the former. They were placed at a distance of one foot three inches apart, and presented all the appearance of having been fashioned by a rude stone instrument.” The mortise-holes were not deeply sunk in the two logs remaining on this crannog; they are represented ([plate XLVI., figs. 14 and 15]). [Fig. 16], a rudely-shaped stone axe-head or chisel, four and a-half inches in length by two and a-half inches in extreme breadth, was also discovered here.
Kilnamaddo.—For description of this crannog, see ante, pp. [37-39]. Amongst the “finds” were an ordinary whetstone, a couple of hammer-stones, some flint-flakes, a large tray-like vessel composed of oak, some fragments of rude pottery, and a pair of rubbing-stones. [Plate XLVI., figs. 5 and 9], are angle-posts of the second hut, they measure respectively three feet eleven inches, and four feet nine inches. [Figs. 6, 7, and 8] (about one foot four inches in length), are pegs used probably to secure the lower logs in position; these pegs varied in size, and bore the marks of being cleanly cut by a sharp metallic instrument.
