Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Platform - peatland
Knockersally Or Colehill, County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Knockersally Or Colehill
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.42996, -7.10588
- SMR number
- ME046-042----
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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 possible platform structure exposed in section in the drain face 0.65m from the field surface. It was composed of brushwood and roundwood elements oriented ENE/WSW. The elements were densely packed with the larger roundwoods towards the bottom of the structure with the lighter elements placed above them. The elements ranged in size from 0.02-0.06m in diameter. The site is located 0.15m below ME-KND015 and 2m south of ME-KND014. A single piece was sampled and later identified as alder and dated to 1510-1260BC. The peat was moderately decomposed with occasional inclusions of eriophorum.
Date of upload: 27 August 2019
Nearby in the register
- Structure - peatlandunder 1 mi
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- Structure - peatlandunder 1 mi
- Structure - peatlandunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.