Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Structure - peatland
Barnaboy (phillipstown Lower By.), County Offaly, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Barnaboy (phillipstown Lower By.)
- County
- Offaly
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.31226, -7.36550
- SMR number
- OF010-491----
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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
This site is located in the industrial peatlands of Daingean South Bog. It was recorded in the 2013 Reassessment Peatland Survey as a dense cluster of brushwood elements and a single worked roundwood found alongside the drain edge (Whitaker 2014). On excavation in 2014 (licence 14E0309) it was interpreted as a peatland structure, measuring 2.76 x 1.71m. The site was dated cal. AD 423-554 (UBA 26599).
A single cutting measuring 3 x 2m was opened. The excavated site consisted of two NW-SE orientated roundwoods, with a concentration of E-W orientated associated brushwood elements. All elements were in poor condition, having been mostly exposed on the field surface. Three chisel-point worked ends with flat facets were noted. The species identified were mainly hazel, with one alder and a radially split oak plank found. No overlying peat remained, but the site was underlain by moderately humified Sphagnum peat (Whitaker 2017).
Compiled by: Jane Whitaker/Femke Vleeshouwer
Date of upload: 25 February 2020
References
Whitaker, J. 2017 Final Excavation Report, Daingean South, Co. Offaly (14E0300-14E0311). Unpublished report prepared by IAC Ltd submitted to the National Monuments Service, Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, Dublin.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 Unpublished report prepared by ADS for Bord na Móna.
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