Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Structure - peatland
Lisdermot, County Offaly, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lisdermot
- County
- Offaly
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.29897, -7.80140
- SMR number
- OF015-319----
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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
An extensive spread of material including milled woodchips and other worked wood on the field surface (dims. 14m min. x 17m min. NW-SE; D 0.09m min.) which probably represents a number of sites within this area. In one area, two small deposits of brushwood are 0.65m apart but are joined by a scatter of twigs. One of these consists of a concentration of approximately parallel light brushwood. A second spread consists of an irregular and dispersed deposit of heavy brushwood. Alder, birch and ash were the species identified. The material is situated in poorly humified Sphagnum peat containing Eriophorum and ericaceous root. Recorded by the Irish Archaeological Wetland Unit (University College, Dublin) in 1996. 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
- Road - class 2 togherunder 1 mi
- Road - class 2 togherunder 1 mi
- Structure - peatlandunder 1 mi
- Structure - peatlandunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.