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Loughbrickland Crannóg

Bronze Age crannóg (artificial island) in County Down

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Loughbrickland Crannóg is a Bronze Age human-made island known as a crannóg, four miles (6.5 km) south west of Banbridge, County Down, Northern Ireland. It is situated in the middle of the lough, 1 mile from the village of Loughbrickland. The crannóg in Loughbrickland is a Scheduled Historic Monument in the townland of Drumnahare, in Banbridge District, at grid reference J1113 4118. It is easily visible from the south-bound carriageway of the trunk A1 Belfast-Dublin route, just past the B3 Rathfriland exit.

Paleolithic
Mesolithic
Neolithic
Chalcolithic
Bronze Age
Iron Age
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Early Modern Period
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Artificial Islands
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United Kingdom

Coordinates

54.31° N, -6.30° E