Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Platform - peatland
Baunmore (galmoy By.), County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Baunmore (galmoy By.)
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 52.75517, -7.66700
- SMR number
- KK007-003001-
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Discovered by the Irish Archaeological Wetland Unit (UCD) in Derryville bog during a pilot survey of Littleton Works in 1995 and surveyed in 2006 during a fieldwalking survey of the Bord na Móna industrial peatlands in the Littleton group of bogs (Licence nos. 06E0696-06E0706). A possible platform (Wth 2.6m; D 0.32m) composed of regularly laid roundwood and brushwood elements recorded in the drain face 0.68m below the field surface (orientated E-W). The wood was moderately preserved but was dried out where it was exposed. The roundwoods (0.05-0.15m) were mainly in the upper part of the structure. The platform was dated to 1484+/-9 BC. (Whitaker 2007, Catalogue no. KKDVE005)
Compiled by: Mary Tunney based on data supplied by Jane Whitaker, Archaeological Development Services.
Date of upload: 2 October 2013
References
Whitaker, J. 2007 Peatland Survey 2006 Littleton Group of Bogs, Counties Tipperary, Kilkenny and Laois. Unpublished report, DOEHLG, National Monuments Service.
Nearby in the register
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