What is recorded here

Twenty years of rain erased the edge of that ash beam, but the wood still points north across the Offaly field. A person may have dragged it there for a fence, a marker or a child's game, yet the peat kept the shape long after the reason vanished. Memory works the same way: facts blur, but the direction of the event remains sharp.

A spread (L 12.42m; Wth 0.7m; D 0.07m) of material orientated N-S on the field surface. At the N end, the material consists of an ash roundwood and a piece of light brushwood, 0.46m apart and parallel to one another. Both elements have been damaged milling. 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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