Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Platform - peatland
Cloonshannagh (ballintober North By., Roosky Ed), County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cloonshannagh (ballintober North By., Roosky Ed)
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.77800, -7.95418
- SMR number
- RO024-037----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
Located towards the W edge of Cloonshannagh bog, with platform (RO024-038----) c. 7m to the NW and platform (RO024-043----) c. 30m to the SE. This platform (Wth 2.4m; T 0.06m) was exposed in a drain face, 0.1m below the field surface. It was orientated N-S and was composed of moderately well preserved longitudinally laid roundwood and brushwood underlain by transversely laid light brushwood. The elements were sparsely laid 0.03 to 0.28m apart. The uppermost longitudinal heavy brushwood was worked to a chisel point with degraded facets. The roundwood and the brushwood ranged from 0.07 to 0.08m and from 0.01 to 0.05m in diameter, respectively. The underlying peat was composed of moderate humified Sphagnum-rich peat with moderate Calluna and Eriophorum inclusions.
Compiled by: Ros O Maoldúin/Michael Moore
Date of upload: 14th April, 2011
Nearby in the register
- Platform - peatlandunder 1 mi
- Platform - peatlandunder 1 mi
- Platform - peatlandunder 1 mi
- Road - class 3 togherunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.