Platform - peatland

The National Monuments Service's description

This site is located in the industrial peatlands of Castletown Bog. It was first identified in the Reassessment Peatland Survey in 2013, located at the S extent of the narrowest part of the bog, and was classified as a Class 3 Road (Whitaker 2014). On excavation in 2016 (licence 15E0189), it was revealed that the site consisted of multiple associated brushwood and roundwood platforms. Two cuttings were opened, and the structures found in either are classified separately.

In the second cutting (OF-CTN003b), located 15m north of Cutting 1 and measuring 6x4m, excavation revealed two associated but separate structures. The one concerned here consisted of five widely placed parallel roundwoods and some associated light brushwood, orientated N-S.

Compiled by: Jane Whitaker/Femke Vleeshouwer

Date of upload: 8th April 2020

References

Whitaker, J. 2017 Final excavation report, Castletown Bog, Co. Offaly (15E0188-15E0189). Unpublished report prepared by IAC Ltd submitted to the National Monuments Service, Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, Dublin.

Whitaker, J. 2014 Re‐assessment Peatland Survey 2013, Blackwater, Boora, Derrydreenagh, Mountdillon Group of Bogs, County Offaly, Longford, Westmeath and Roscommon. Unpublished report prepared by ADS for Bord na Móna.