Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Platform - peatland
Derryfadda, County Tipperary North, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Derryfadda
- County
- Tipperary North
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.74407, -7.66372
- SMR number
- TN036-050039-
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
Situated on flat bogland. The site consisted of a platform (dims. 8.2m x 3.2m) constructed with a linear deposit of roundwood and brushwood supporting the main surface of timbers. Two headed shafts of cherry wood were found amonst the lower level of wood (Murray and Ó Néill 1999, Derryfadda 9, 31-2).
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien.
Date of upload: 22 September 2008
Nearby in the register
- Road - unclassified togherunder 1 mi
- Road - unclassified togherunder 1 mi
- Road - road/trackwayunder 1 mi
- Platform - peatlandunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.