Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Platform - peatland
Clonad (phillipstown Lower By.), County Offaly, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Clonad (phillipstown Lower By.)
- County
- Offaly
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 53.26550, -7.30624
- SMR number
- OF018-202----
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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 Clonad Bog. It was recorded in a drain face c. 0.14m below the field surface during the 2013 Reassessment Peatland Survey (Whitaker 2014).
On excavation in 2014 (licence 14E0354) the site was exposed to be a possible platform. A single cutting, measuring 5x2m, was opened; the E extent of the cutting was truncated by a drain. The overlying peat was well-humified Sphagnum peat. The possible platform was composed of closely placed NW-SE orientated brushwood and roundwood elements, measuring a maximum of 1.4m in length. They were laid a maximum of two layers deep. The underlying peat was moderately humified.
A fragment of alder was chosen for AMS dating and returned a result of cal. 1923-1752 BC (UBA 26630).
Compiled by: Jane Whitaker/Femke Vleeshouwer
Date of upload: 25 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 Unpublished report prepared by ADS for Bord na Móna.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. 2016 Final Excavation Report, Clonad, Co. Offaly (14E0353–14E0355). Unpublished report prepared by IAC Ltd submitted to the National Monuments Service, Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, Dublin.
Nearby in the register
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- Road - class 2 togherunder 1 mi
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.