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Platform - peatland

Derrynagran, County Longford, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Platform - peatland, Derrynagran, 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
Derrynagran
County
Longford
Country
Ireland
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.60100, -7.89303
SMR number
LF022-158001-

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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 roundwoods with occasional brushwood and split timber. Excavation in 2002 revealed a platform (exposed L 8m; Wth 2.6m) consisting of five distinct layers of parallel roundwood and brushwood, with a date range of 50 BC-AD 130 (Whitaker 2009, 53). The various layers were constructed at different angles to each another. Three parallel roundwoods (diam. 0.051-0.083m) and several irregularly laid small pieces of brushwood (diam. 0.003-0.026m) c. 0.5m to the S of the S elements were likely to be associated. All had toolmarked ends. Short lengths of a togher (LF022-158002-) ran both to the E and W from the platform. (Whitaker 2004a, 249; 2004e, 350-51)

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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