Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Platform - peatland
Baunmore (galmoy By.), County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Baunmore (galmoy By.)
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.74015, -7.62753
- SMR number
- KK008-181----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
Two roundwood pegs (L 0.73-1.7m; diam. 0.07-0.09m) with worked ends, 0.77m apart, angled towards each other, in a poor state of preservation. Possibly the substructure of a more substantial platform (Wth 1.83m; D 0.5m; L 8m) which has been milled away.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney based on data supplied by Jane Whitaker, Archaeological Development Services.
Date of upload: 26 November 2012
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 Unpublished report, DOEHLG, National Monuments Service.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
- Road - class 3 togherunder 1 mi
- Structure - peatlandunder 1 mi
- Road - class 3 togherunder 1 mi
- Road - class 3 togherunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.