Structure - peatland

The National Monuments Service's description

This site is located in the industrial peatlands of Kinnegad Bog. It was first recorded in the 2013 Peatland Survey as a peatland structure exposed in the drain face and orientated N-S. The monument was also visible in the opposing drain face, where a single damaged roundwood was seen (Bermingham 2014).

Prior to excavation in 2015, some brushwood material was located to the S of the roundwood (ME-KRS021), and the cutting was extended to include this brushwood and investigate its association with the site. It should also be noted that the easting and northing co-ordinates for this site are reversed in the report - the ITM might not represent the locations of any of the sites.

Excavation in 2015 (licence 15E0166) revealed that the site is part of a previously unrecorded sighting of Road – Class 1 togher, ME-KRS001, E of the last sighting ME-KRS0001g. The site was overlain by poorly decomposed, laminated Sphagnum peat and underlain by poorly humified Sphagnum pool peat. The recorded birch element (L1.5m, Diam. 0.06m) lay immediately along the northern extent of the brushwood associated with ME-KRS0001. The other elements consisted of longitudinal split oak planks supported by a transverse timber (L2m, Diam. 0.52m), with a supporting bed of irregularly-laid brushwood.

Two sightings at the E extent of this site were excavated in 2007 (licence 07E0496 - see Rohan and Corcoran 2009), and subsequently dated to 1540 ± 9 BC.

Compiled by: Jane Whitaker/Femke Vleeshouwer

Date of upload: 27/02/2020

References

Whitaker, J. 2017 Final Excavation Report, Kinnegad Bog, Co. Meath (15E0160–15E0177). Unpublished report prepared by IAC Ltd submitted to the National Monuments Service, Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, Dublin.

Bermingham, N. 2014 Archaeological Survey of Ireland Peatland Survey 2013: Kinnegad (Rossan) Bog, Co Meath. Unpublished Archaeological Survey report submitted to DOEHLG

Rohan, N. and Corcoran, E. 2009 Final report on Excavations carried out in Kinnegad Bog, Co Meath and Lullymore East and Gilltown Bogs Co Kildare. Unpublished excavation report submitted to DOEHLG.