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THE
LAKE DWELLINGS
OF
IRELAND.
Frontispiece.
IRISH LAKE DWELLING OF THE ISOLATED TYPE.
Ideally restored from inspection of numerous sites.
THE
LAKE DWELLINGS
OF
IRELAND:
OR ANCIENT
LACUSTRINE HABITATIONS OF ERIN,
COMMONLY CALLED CRANNOGS.
BY
W. G. WOOD-MARTIN, M.R.I.A., F.R.H.A.A.I.,
LIEUT.-COLONEL 8TH BRIGADE NORTH IRISH DIVISION, R.A.;
Author of “Sligo and the Enniskilleners”;
“History of Sligo, from the Earliest Ages to the close of the Reign of Queen Elizabeth.”
DUBLIN:
HODGES, FIGGIS & CO., GRAFTON STREET.
PUBLISHERS TO THE UNIVERSITY.
LONDON:
LONGMANS, GREEN & CO., PATERNOSTER ROW.
1886.
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
DUBLIN: PRINTED AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS.
PREFACE.
The object the writer has in view inthis Publication is to place on recordthe remarkable discoveries made ina department of Archæology hithertoalmost unnoticed in Ireland, except inthe Proceedings, Catalogues, and Journals of variouslearned Societies. So far back as 1861 a writer remarkedthat such a work would be “a real boon toarchæology,” yet in the interval none has appeared.The cause is not far to seek. A publication treating ofthe habits and social economy of long-forgotten generationsis little calculated to gain a rapid foothold withthe general public, by whom the study of the past mayprobably be considere