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
- 53.37894, -7.29884
- SMR number
- OF003-030----
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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 severely damaged, regular deposit of mixed brushwood and some twigs on the field surface (L 1.4m min.; Wth 0.65m; D 0.02m). The brushwood is densely laid and orientated NW-SE. Two metal-cut worked ends are evident. This site may represent the remains of a more substantial linear structure. The wood is desiccated and fragmentary and set in well-humified Sphagnum peat with pockets of poorly humified Sphagnum peat. 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.