Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Platform - peatland
Derrindiff, County Longford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Derrindiff
- County
- Longford
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.59452, -7.88807
- SMR number
- LF022-109----
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
A small platform was exposed on the field surface immediately ENE of a drain (exposed area 1.25m by 0.4m). Eighteen to twenty pieces of brushwood (diam. 0.025-0.055m) extended N-S. One piece of brushwood had a chisel-point end, possibly made with a metal tool. (Dunne 1999, 25, 99DBNW0020A)
Compiled by: Mary Tunney based on data supplied by Jane Whitaker, Archaeological Development Services.
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Nearby in the register
- Platform - peatlandunder 1 mi
- Road - class 3 togherunder 1 mi
- Road - unclassified togherunder 1 mi
- Road - unclassified togherunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.