What is recorded here

Platform is a platform, peatland in Cloonshannagh (ballintober North By., Roosky Ed), County Roscommon, Ireland. Located in the industrial peatlands of Cloonshannagh Bog, the site was first recorded in the 2013 Peatland Reassessment Survey as a structure exposed on the field surface and the drain face on its west side. Excavated in 2014 under licence 14E0270, the platform consisted of alder, birch, hazel and willow roundwoods and brushwoods laid in a generally haphazard manner with a roughly east-west orientation. Dated to cal.

This site was located in the industrial peatlands of Cloonshannagh Bog. It was first recorded in the 2013 Peatland Reassessment Survey as a structure exposed on the field surface and the drain face on it W side (Whitaker 2014). The site was excavated in 2014 under licence 14E0270, and dated to cal. AD 418-571. The structure was found to be a platform, consisting of alder, birch, hazel and willow roundwoods and brushwoods, laid in a generally haphazard manner. The overall combined orientation was roughly E-W. The elements were relatively sparsely set and were in poor condition, often fragmentary, and those at the surface had been milled. A number of worked ends were identified, many associated with small brushwood pegs or stakes. As with the other elements of the structure there was no clearly identifiable pattern to the stakes. Two toolmarks were retained for specialist analysis (Coughlan and Whitaker 2019). Compiled by: Femke Vleeshouwer/Jane Whitaker/Tim Coughlan Date of upload: 17 April 2020

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