What is recorded here

Mud and memory collide in Offaly, where a single brushwood rod lies exposed across the peatland. It measures just over a metre and belongs to no known structure, yet it refuses to disappear. The land keeps giving back fragments, suggesting human hands once shaped the edge of the wilderness. Whether the rod marked a boundary, a tool handle or a forgotten scaffold remains uncertain, but the peat remembers the shape of what stood above it.

A single piece of brushwood (L 1.1m min.; diam. 0.03m) on the field surface. Although other small deposits of brushwood are evident in this area, the relationship between the wood is uncertain. 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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