What is recorded here

Post row is a 380m line of oak posts driving through an Offaly bog, each point cut sharp and set five to ten metres apart. Local story claims parallel rows once filled the crossing, but only this single seam remains visible today. The western posts still hold split oak wedges, proving the build was deliberate rather than casual. Whoever walked this wet dark place trusted those marks to carry them across.

Post row (L 380m; Wth 0.15m; D 1m) which consists of a single line of regularly split oak posts (av. diam. 0.1m) traversing the bog in a SE-NW direction at a narrow crossing point. The posts are inserted into the peat at intervals of 5-10m. Generally the tops of the posts are milled away. The lower ends are worked to pencil points with long narrow tool facets. Towards the W end of the row, several split oak wedges were used to secure the uprights. Local people recount that this structure originally consisted of parallel rows of posts. Compiled by: Irish Archaeological Wetland Unit (University College Dublin). Date of upload: 23 May 2011

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