What is recorded here
Structure is a structure, peatland in Cloonshannagh (ballintober North By., Roosky Ed), County Roscommon, Ireland. Excavations in 2010 showed that four platform sites formed one linear togher inside the industrial peatlands of Cloonshannagh Bog. The 2013 Re-assessment Survey recorded thirteen partial sightings, and sighting d was excavated in 2014.
This site was located in the industrial peatlands of Cloonshannagh Bog. Excavations in 2010 (Rohan & Whitaker 2013) revealed that four sites previously identified as Platforms during the 2007/2008 Archaeological Survey of Ireland Peatland Survey (Rohan 2009) formed part of a linear togher, which is described under RO024-025----. The other platform sites are RO024-048--- and RO-024-056---. The 2013 Re-assessment Survey (Whitaker 2014) recorded this site at thirteen sightings CLS115a-m (partial sightings of a-d remained after the 2010 excavations) and in 2014 sighting ‘d’ was excavated (Coughlan & Whitaker 2019).
Edited by: Femke Vleeshouwer/Jane Whitaker, 16 April 2020
Original date of upload: 18th April, 2011
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