What is recorded here
Near the W edge of a large expanse of bog. Discovered in 1955 during Bord na Móna drainage operations and investigated by Mr. B O'Riordáin of the NMI, who described the site as 'a timber structure some 5m wide, 0.17m in thickness, 1.6m below the present (shrunken) surface of the bog. It was composed of light branches 'laid crosswise on each other .... but not interwoven in any regular fashion .…(and) in other cuttings inspected some large hewn timbers were observed, one of which measured over 1.05m in length 0.22m in width and 0.08m in thickness' (SMR file; NMI File 1A 21/55)).
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 10 June 2011
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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