3rd April, 1017. 



Professor AV. St. C. Symmeks in the Chair. 



PREHISTOEIC DWELLING PLACES. (Second Paper). 



SOUTERRAINS. ThE CrANNOG AT BALLYSCULLION. 



By H. C. Lawlor, M.R.LA. 



(Abstract.) 



It is with regret that I have to say that during last summer 

 I was prevented by the inclemency of the weather from getting 

 through as much work as I did the preceeding summer. The 

 Easter, Whitsuntide and July holidays were hopelessly wet, and 

 many Saturdays which I could have devoted to the work were 

 lost from the same cause. 



Although the subject of my paper this year is a con- 

 tinuation of last year's subject, I shall take this opjiortunity 

 of giving an account of a Lake Dwelling or Crfnnog of 

 some historic interest, not included in Dr. Reeves' or Dr. 

 Munro's lists. Its existence as such seems to have bee i at first 

 recognized by Mrs. Bruce, of Ballyscullion, who asked me to 

 investigate it. Submerged by water in winter, in summer the 

 little circular island, at lowest water level, now measures about 

 60 feet in diameter. It lies due north of Church Island in 

 Lough Beg ; unfortunately, it is not marked in the Ordnance 

 Survey Map, so that I cannot say exactly how far, but judging 

 by the eye it seems about from one and a half to two miles distant 

 therefrom. The Island is circular, and so far as its external 

 appearance is concerned, consists on the surface of ordinary field 

 or river boulders, these extending, as far as can be seen under 

 the water, all round. A number of short stumps of black oak 



