Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Structure - peatland
Bunsallagh, County Offaly, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Bunsallagh
- County
- Offaly
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.37864, -7.29933
- SMR number
- OF003-024----
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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 dispersed, irregular deposit of sixteen pieces of brushwood on the field surface (L 2.49m; Wth 1.58m; D 0.1m). The site is severely damaged and appears to represent the lower levels of a more substantial structure. The brushwood (diam. 0.013-0.034m) had a number of worked ends and branch-trimming with metal toolmarks evident. The wood is in poor condition and set in moderately humified Sphagnum peat with some Eriophorum. SMR OF003-023---- and SMR OF003-025---- are within 3m of this site, on the same field surface. Recorded by the Irish Archaeological Wetland Unit (University College, Dublin) in 2002. The evidence is not sufficient to warrant its acceptance as the remains of an archaeological monument.
The original survey description was compiled by the Irish Archaeological Wetland Unit (University College, Dublin). Assessed and revised by: Caimin O'Brien, Paul Walsh
Date of upload: 23 May 2011
Nearby in the register
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.