5400 x 3600 px | 45,7 x 30,5 cm | 18 x 12 inches | 300dpi
Aufnahmedatum:
4. Juni 2007
Ort:
Clare County, Ireland
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Straw huts at the Craggaunowen Project demonstrates how Irish farm families lived in the early days.The Crannog is a reconstruction of a lake dwelling, common in Ireland in the fifth to twelfth centuries A.D. Settlements of this kind may, however, have been used as early as the late bronze age and in some cases were still occupied up to the seventeenth century. Crannogs were artificial islands on which people built houses, kept animals and lived in relative security. The name Crannog is taken from the Irish word crann which means tree. As the name suggests timber was the most important building material. They were usually built about 100 meters from the shore of a shallow lake. The island was constructed by laying layers of brushwood and other material, such as stones on the lake until eventually the island was formed. In the central area, houses of a wooden construction were built. Access to the Crannog was normally by boat but when times became more settled, causeways or bridges were used.
