What is recorded here

Indicated is a circular crannog on wet Offaly bogland, marked by a sixty-metre grove west of Derrynaslingue wood. People may have stood there in rain, tying rope or listening for animals in the trees. The bog kept the shape long after hands left it.

Situated on wet poorly drained bogland. Outline of circular shaped tree-planted area (approx. diam. 60m) at W end of coniferous tree plantation visible on Digital Globe aerial photograph taken 20/03/2019. Circular grove of trees standing on bogland to the W of Derrynaslingue wood depicted on revised ed. OS 6-inch map. See attached image of Google Earth photograph taken 18/01/2019 Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details provided by Ed O'Donovan Date of upload: 09 April 2019

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