What is recorded here

Fifty centimetres of oak still stands in the Offaly peat, leaning east-west beside a forgotten marker. The wood has rotted to the point where no instrument can judge its age, and the men who cut it are lost to time. It may have been a bridge, a fence or a toy for a child who never returned. The bog kept the plank but swallowed the story, leaving only a shadow of human hands in the dark water.

An oak plank (Wth 0.19m; D 0.05m) in the drain face. The wood is in poor condition and the timber conversion cannot be determined. It is located at a transition from poorly to well-humified Sphagnum peat. This timber is 5.5m from SMR OF007-083---- and is orientated in a similar ENE-WSW direction. Recorded by the Irish Archaeological Wetland Unit (University College, Dublin) in 1996. The evidence is not sufficient to warrant its acceptance as the remains of an archaeological monument. The original survey description was compiled by the Irish Archaeological Wetland Unit (University College, Dublin). Assessed and revised by: Caimin O'Brien, Paul Walsh Date of upload: 23 May 2011

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