Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Structure - peatland
Mullalough Or Cavemount, County Offaly, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Mullalough Or Cavemount
- County
- Offaly
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.30601, -7.24266
- SMR number
- OF010-480----
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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 dense band (Wth 1.88m; D 0.44m) of mixed brushwood, roundwoods, a split timber and occasional twigs, up to ten pieces deep in opposing drain faces. At the W end of the band, the site consists of light brushwood and occasional twigs regularly deposited in an ENE-WSW direction. Towards the centre of the site, another small group of mixed brushwood are orientated NNW-SSE. At the E end of the site, the wood is more irregularly deposited and consists of roundwoods (diam. 0.061-0.08m), heavy brushwood and a possible upright. Evidence for woodworking is confined to a half-split roundwood. The wood is in poor condition and has been greatly disturbed by machinery. It sits in well-humified peat containing Menyanthes. Recorded by the Irish Archaeological Wetland Unit (University College, Dublin) in 2001.
The original survey description was compiled by the Irish Archaeological Wetland Unit (University College, Dublin). Assessed and revised by: Caimin O'Brien, Paul Walsh. Re-assessed by Margaret Keane.
Date of upload: 23 May 2011
Nearby in the register
- Structure - peatlandunder 1 mi
- Road - class 3 togherunder 1 mi
- Road - class 3 togherunder 1 mi
- Road - class 3 togherunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.