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Road - gravel/stone trackway - peatland

Drehid, County Kildare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Road - gravel/stone trackway - peatland, Drehid, County Kildare, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Drehid
County
Kildare
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
NULL
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.34475, -6.87866
SMR number
KD008-039----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1799 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1830 · V.3:11-15:XV. Britisches Reich. C. Kon: Ireland. a. Prov: Leinster. Counties: 1-12 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

Towards the W edge of 'Timahoe Bog'. Visible as a thin layer (T 0.2-0.25m) of grey, stony marl overlying a thinner layer (T 0.08-0.12m) of compacted vegetation in the N face of a turf bank, 0.8m below the present, heather-clad bog surface, and traceable for a length of 10m on an ENE-WSW orientation. The Irish Archaeological Wetland Unit (UCD) subsequently visited (26 March 2004) and recorded four separate archaeological horizons with natural peat above and below. The lower peat horizon was fen (min D. 0.95m) which was unusual and suggested either an early date for the site or a late transition from fen to raised bog peats in the area. All four phases were present through the entire longitudinal exposure, however, Phase 1 was not evident in the partial transverse section at the NE end. This may indicate that either Phase 1 was narrower than subsequent phases or that there was some divergence in the lines of construction. The site is covered by a poorly humified Sphagnum peat representing a developed raised bog environment.

Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy

Date of upload: 10 June 2011

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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