What is recorded here

Post row in County Offaly is a forgotten boundary marker buried in raised bog, where fourteen near-vertical stakes still stand close together after centuries of drowning. They may have guided people across wet ground or marked a field edge before the peat swallowed the world. The brushwood laid between them suggests careful human work, not random decay. What is missing is the hand that struck them and the life that moved along the line they made visible.

Fourteen near vertical stakes and posts (L 0.24-0.62m; diam. 0.05-0.08m) orientated N-S which were traced across the overgrown field surface towards the dryland (L 9m; Wth 0.7m; diam. 0.08m). There is also some associated brushwood on the field surface. Within the area examined the stakes were set 0.2-0.4m apart with a small number of horizontally laid pieces of brushwood which are orientated perpendicular to the stakes and posts. The site is situated within raised bog peat. Compiled by: Irish Archaeological Wetland Unit (University College Dublin). Date of upload: 23 May 2011

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