Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Platform - peatland
Derrylough, County Longford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Derrylough
- County
- Longford
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.59227, -7.87129
- SMR number
- LF022-136----
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 number of closely packed small and large pieces of brushwood (exposed L 2m, Wth 1.6m) were exposed on a field surface that was being milled immediately to the WNW of a drain. Most of it extended longitudinally in an ENE-WSW direction. One large piece of brushwood (diam. 0.06m; exposed L 1.6m) had a chisel-point end. Additional transverse rods extended over and under this large element. The evidence suggested that this was likely to be the remains of a platform. (Dunne 1999, 39, 99DBSE0037A)
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 - class 3 togherunder 1 mi
- Road - unclassified 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.