Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Structure - peatland
Cloonshannagh (ballintober North By., Roosky Ed), County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cloonshannagh (ballintober North By., Roosky Ed)
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 53.77809, -7.95467
- SMR number
- RO024-084----
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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 exposed on the field surface, and composed of nine brushwood elements that were laid side by side (Whitaker 2014).
The site was excavated in 2014 under licence 14E0272, and dated to cal. AD 1039-1207. It consisted of less than a dozen poorly preserved brushwoods, laid longitudinally within the cutting with an E-W orientation. They were sparsely laid and in poor preservation. As the site was located on the field surface the excavated elements may represent the remnants of a more substantial structure that has been milled away, or it may have been the site of a small, localised, simple platform (Coughlan and Whitaker 2019).
Compiled by: Femke Vleeshouwer/Jane Whitaker/Tim Coughlan
Date of upload: 17 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 Unpublished report prepared by ADS for Bord na Móna.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 Unpublished report submitted to DOEHLG & BnM
Nearby in the register
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.