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Mount Cashel

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Shannon, County Clare, Ireland
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About Mount Cashel

Evidence of generously earlier home is insisted by the closeness of a "Crannog" Lake Dwelling in the midst of Castle Lake.

This is a man-made slope of rocks in the lake worked by the Celts. Such lake homes customary in Ireland in the fifth to twelfth several years A.D.

Settlements of this kind may, in any case, have been used as in front of timetable as the late bronze age and once in a while were up 'til now had up to the seventeenth century.

Crannogs were reproduced islands on which people gathered houses, kept animals and lived in relative security.

The name Crannog is taken from the Irish word Crann which infers tree. As the name prescribes timber was the most basic building material.

They were typically worked around 100 meters from the shore of a shallow lake.

The island was worked by laying layers of brushwood and other material, for instance, stones on the lake until over the long haul the island was confined.

In the central district, spots of a wooden advancement were built.

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