What is recorded here

A gravel road (L 600m min.), orientated NNE-SSW, was exposed during peat-milling, c. 1980, 1m below the field surface. A section of it (L 190m; Wth 4m; D 0.2m) was excavated in 1988. It was found to be constructed of large pebbles set in a bed of fine gravel and sand, beneath which was a layer of coarser gravel with oak transverses that gave strength to the foundation. Beneath this again were occasional pockets of worked hazel, birch brushwood and twigs. Radiocarbon dated to AD 669-777 (1284±19 BP, GrN-16875). (Raftery 1996, Knappoge, 194-5) Compiled by: Mary Tunney based on data supplied by the former Irish Archaeological Wetland Unit, University College, Dublin. Date of upload: 26 August 2011

A prehistoric trackway, likely Bronze Age in date, constructed of gravel and stone; it represents an early transport feature in a peatland environment, indicating human activity and land use in the area during the prehistoric period.

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