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Platform - peatland

Ballybeg (Aghnameadle Par.), County Tipperary North, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Platform - peatland, Ballybeg (Aghnameadle Par.), County Tipperary North, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Ballybeg (Aghnameadle Par.)
County
Tipperary North
Country
Ireland
Coordinates
52.62658, -7.71291
SMR number
TN048-057007-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1904 · Sheet 13. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

A peatland survey carried out in 2006 by Archaeological Development Services recorded a platform measuring in ‘width 2.45m, depth 0.45, known length 0.7m’ (Whitaker 2006, 31). Described by Whitaker (2006, 31) as ‘this site was visible in the drain face, 0.04m below the field surface, and in the drain face to the west of TN-BLG003b. It was composed of irregularly laid roundwood elements and a plank fragment. The site appeared to be orientated north–south and was moderately well preserved. The roundwood measured between 0.06 and 0.18m in diameter. The peat was composed of poorly humified Sphagnum with occasional Calluna and moderate Eriophorum. Two pieces of wood were identified as ash and yew’.

Compiled by: Caimin O’Brien

Date of upload: 20 August 2012

References

Whitaker, J. 2007 Peatland Survey 2006 Littleton Group of Bogs, Counties Tipperary, Kilkenny and Laois. Unpublished report, DOEHLG, National Monuments Service.

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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