IRISH CRANNOGES. 



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honours, he trusteth no point thereunto for his safety, as 

 appeareth by the raising of the strongest castles of all his 

 countreys, and that fortification which he only dependeth 

 upon is in sartin freshwater loyhes in his country, which from 

 the sea there come neither ship nor boat to approach them : 

 it is thought that there in the said fortified islands lyeth all 

 his plate, which is much, and money, prisoners, and gages : 

 which islands hath in wars to fore been attempted, and now 

 of late again by the Lord Deputy there, Sir Harry Sydney, 

 which for want of means for safe conducts upon the water it 

 hath not prevailed." 



FIG. 162. 



Section of a Crannoge in Ardakillin Lough, Roscommon. 







Again, the map of the escheated territories, made for the 

 Government, A.D. 1591, by Francis Jobson, or the "Platt of 

 the County of Monaghan," contains rough sketches of the 

 dwellings of the petty chiefs of Monaghan, which " are in all 

 cases surrounded by water." In the "Annals of the Four 

 Masters," and other records of early Irish history, we meet 

 with numerous instances in which the Oannoges are men- 

 tioned, in some of which their position has not preserved 

 them from robbery and destruction ; and we need not, there- 

 fore, be surprised to find that many of the Swiss Pfahlbauten 

 appear to have been destroyed by fire. 



Not only in the Lake of Zurich, but also in Lakes Constance, 

 Geneva, Neufchatel, Bienne, Morat, Sempach, in fact in most 

 of the large Swiss lakes, as well as in several of the smaller 



