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Platform - peatland

Derrindiff, County Longford, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Platform - peatland, Derrindiff, County Longford, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Derrindiff
County
Longford
Country
Ireland
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.59132, -7.87321
SMR number
LF022-120----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

Originally recorded as a narrow, compact single layer of parallel, longitudinal roundwood and brushwood exposed at the shoulder of an ESE drain face (exposed Wth 1.35m). Five roundwoods (diam. 0.07-0.08m) and twelve pieces of brushwood (diam. 0.01-0.04m) were present (Dunne 1999, 33, 99DBSE018A). Excavation in 2001 revealed five pieces of large brushwood placed parallel in a N-S orientation. Three of the pieces had chisel-point toolmarks. Radiocarbon dating yielded an Iron Age date of 358-235 BC (Whitaker 2009, 40). 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

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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