What is recorded here

Raheenmore holds the deepest raised bog known in Ireland, stretching fifteen metres below a flat ridge north-west of Daingean. The earth has breathed since the last Ice Age, trapping water and life in a dark green basin that spans two river systems. People later built dams to stop the bog drying, acknowledging that even nature needs help remembering how to hold rain.

Enclosure or possible remains of ringfort (max. int. diam. NE-SW c. 43m) situated on W end of a large flat ridge and defined in part only from SW to NNE. Quarried at W and levelled from SE to SW. (ITA Survey 1942). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Offaly' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 23 May 2011

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