Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Platform - peatland
Corlea, County Longford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Corlea
- County
- Longford
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.62045, -7.85196
- SMR number
- LF022-096----
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
Originally recorded as a small area of a hurdle (exposed L 2.9m; Wth 2m) on the field surface which was being milled (Dunne 1999, 12, 99LBW0032A). Excavation revealed the hurdle to be aligned WSW-ENE and constructed of five sails with woven rods. It rested on an oak roundwood (L 2m), orientated ENE-WSW (Dunne 2002m, 206-7). The evidence suggested that this was most likely to be the remains of a platform.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney based on data supplied by Jane Whitaker, Archaeological Development Services.
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Nearby in the register
- Road - unclassified togherunder 1 mi
- Road - class 2 togherunder 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.