What is recorded here

Derryville bog in County Kilkenny holds a narrow wooden platform buried beneath peat, measuring 2.8 metres long and 2.5 metres wide. Longitudinal and transverse roundwoods interlock with two small planks and brushwood, forming a compact walking surface now reduced to fragmented shadows. It may have carried people across wet ground, given a steady path where water and moss swallowed ordinary footsteps.

Discovered by the Irish Archaeological Wetland Unit (UCD) in Derryville bog during a pilot survey of Littleton Works in 1995 and surveyed in 2006 during a fieldwalking survey of the Bord na Móna industrial peatlands in the Littleton group of bogs (Licence nos. 06E0696-06E0706). A possible platform (Wth 2.5m; D 0.09m; L 2.8m) composed of a series of longitudinal and transverse roundwooks and two small planks that supported and were interspersed with brushwood. The structure was compactly arranged but was in a poor state of preservation. The elements varied in diameter from 0.03-0.07m and in length from 0.05-1.1m. (Whitaker 2007, Catalogue no. KKDVE007) Compiled by: Mary Tunney based on data supplied by Jane Whitaker, Archaeological Development Services. Date of upload: 2 October 2013

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