Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Platform - peatland
Curraghnaboll, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Curraghnaboll
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.34670, -7.97074
- SMR number
- RO055-056----
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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 Cornafulla Bog. It was first recorded in the 2013 Reassessment Peatland Survey as a togher, and was located in a W-facing drain face sighting 0.15m below the field surface (Whitaker 2014). On excavation in 2016 (licence 15E0186), it was revealed to be a brushwood and roundwood platform, measuring a maximum of 2.04x1.04m. The site was dated to cal. 174 BC-AD 2 (UBA 26653).
The platform was excavated in a single cutting measuring 5x2m. It was overlain and underlain by moderately humified Sphagnum peat. The platform was composed of NE-SW orientated birch brushwood and two ash roundwood elements. All elements were in poor condition and some were machine-damaged. A simple birch peg with a chisel-point end was found, measuring 0.05m (diam.) and 0.51m in length.
Compiled by: Jane Whitaker/Femke Vleeshouwer
Date of upload: 25 February 2020
References
Whitaker, J. 2017 Final Excavation Report, Cornafulla Bog, Co Roscommon (15E0186–15E0187). Unpublished report prepared by IAC Ltd submitted to the National Monuments Service, Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, Dublin.
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 Unpublished report prepared by ADS for Bord na Móna.
Nearby in the register
- Structure - peatlandunder 1 mi
- Road - unclassified togherunder 1 mi
- Road - unclassified togherunder 1 mi
- Road - unclassified togherunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.