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
- Coordinates
- 53.77854, -7.95356
- SMR number
- RO024-061----
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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 Cloonshannagh Bog. It was first recorded in the 2013 Reassessment Peatland Survey as a densely laid, roundwood and brushwood possible platform exposed in section 0.26 m below the field surface, in a W-facing drain face (Whitaker 2014).
The site was excavated in 2015 (licence 15E0197) and dated to cal. 1082-846 BC. The excavated site consisted of mainly NW–SE oriented roundwood and brushwood elements, and a deposit of lighter brushwood to the SE. Three roundwoods overlay the main structure and were separated from it by a layer of peat. Underlying the second deposit was an arrangement of roundwood, brushwood and twigs, overlying an apparent hummock in the peat. Several toolmarked ends were noted. Four supporting pegs were found. The wood deposits were dominated by birch, alder and pomoideae with lesser amounts of ash, elm, hazel, oak and holly (Coughlan and Whitaker 2019).
Compiled by: Femke Vleeshouwer/Jane Whitaker/Tim Coughlan
Date of upload: 15 April 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 Unpublished report prepared by ADS for Bord na Móna.
Coughlan, T & Whitaker, J 2019 Final excavation report Cloonshannagh Bog, Co Roscommon. Bord na Mona Peatland Archaeological Services 2014-2017. Unpublished report submitted to DOEHLG & BnM
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