Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Structure - peatland
Rathdrum, County Offaly, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rathdrum
- County
- Offaly
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 53.30574, -7.35746
- SMR number
- OF010-498----
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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 was located in the industrial peatlands of Daingean South Bog. It was first recorded in the 2013 Reassessment Peatland Survey as a deposit of brushwood and roundwood elements (Diam 0.02-0.08m, max. L 1.04m) exposed on the field surface at the drain edge N of OF010-500.
The find spot was relocated in 2014 (licence 14E0305) using GPS, but no wood remained in situ (Whitaker 2017).
A fragment of hazel was chosen for AMS dating and returned a result of cal. AD 1217-1293 (UBA 26596).
Compiled by: Jane Whitaker/Femke Vleeshouwer
Date of upload: 26 February 2020
References
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 Unpublished report prepared by ADS for Bord na Móna.
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 Unpublished report prepared by IAC Ltd submitted to the National Monuments Service, Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, Dublin.
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.