What is recorded here

Structure is a structure, peatland in Cloonshannagh (ballintober North By., Roosky Ed), County Roscommon, Ireland. First recorded during the 2013 Reassessment Peatland Survey, the site contained thirteen hazel, ash, birch and oak elements within a 3.3 by 0.65m area. Seven elements had worked ends, while two isolated brushwood pieces lay above the main group. Archaeologists excavated the remains in 2014 and dated them between 359 and 174 BC.

This site was located in the industrial peatlands of Cloonshannagh Bog. It was first recorded in the 2013 Reassessment Peatland Survey as a platform visible in the drain face 0.21 to 0.77m below bog surface (Whitaker 2014). The site was excavated in 2014 (licence 14E0263). It was dated cal. 359-174 BC. Two isolated brushwood elements were uncovered 0.2m below the field surface, oriented NNE and NW-SE. They were overlying one another. There was a further c. 0.26m of peat between these elements and the site recorded as RO-CLS106. The excavated site was composed of a haphazard arrangement of thirteen brushwood and roundwood elements with no apparent form or construction contained within an area measuring 3.3 x 0.65m in size. The elements were hazel, ash, birch and oak. Seven of the elements had worked ends. This site appears to have been truncated by the Bord na Móna drain and may originally have formed part of a small platform (Coughlan and Whitaker 2019). Compiled by: Femke Vleeshouwer/Jane Whitaker/Tim Coughlan Date of upload: 16 April 2020

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