Loughbrickland Crannóg is a
Bronze Age man-made island known as a
crannóg, four miles (6.5 km) south west of
Banbridge,
County Down
County Down () is one of the six counties of Northern Ireland, one of the nine counties of Ulster and one of the traditional thirty-two counties of Ireland. It covers an area of and has a population of 531,665. It borders County Antrim to the ...
,
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.
References
Archaeological sites in County Down
Scheduled monuments in Northern Ireland
Islands of County Down
Uninhabited islands of Northern Ireland
Former populated places in Northern Ireland
Bronze Age sites in Europe
Lake islands of Northern Ireland
Crannogs in Ireland
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