Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Structure - peatland
Cott, County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cott
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.30639, -6.74450
- SMR number
- KD013-031----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗
The National Monuments Service's description
One of five sites (KD013-028---- to KD013-032----) recorded in Prosperous bog, part of the Bord na Móna Coolnamona group of works, and all classified as, 'sightings of archaeological wood'. Two sites were dated (KD013-029---- and KD013-032----) and returned dates of AD1010 to 1260 and AD1300 to 1450.
KD013-031---- comprised a single brushwood of alder, located on the bog surface. (ADS Ltd. 'Site Code PPS004')
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 10 June 2011
Nearby in the register
- Structure - peatlandunder 1 mi
- Structure - peatlandunder 1 mi
- Structure - peatlandunder 1 mi
- Road - class 1 togherunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.