What is recorded here

Machinery cut ash, willow and alder into round sticks, then peat swallowed the fragments. Whether a cart wheel, a bridge joint or a discarded scaffold, the wood now lies crushed inside Sphagnum and Eriophorum, waiting for someone to imagine the hand that broke it. Offaly keeps that much of the maker while withholding the rest.

An irregular spread of three overlapping light roundwoods and a piece of brushwood (L 0.91m min.; Wth 0.2m; D 0.18m). The wood, which was identified as ash, willow and alder, has been milled and broken by machinery. This material is in poorly humified Eriophorum and Sphagnum peat. Recorded by the Irish Archaeological Wetland Unit (University College, Dublin) in 1996. The evidence is not sufficient to warrant its acceptance as the remains of an archaeological monument. The original survey description was compiled by the Irish Archaeological Wetland Unit (University College, Dublin). Assessed and revised by: Caimin O'Brien, Paul Walsh Date of upload: 23 May 2011

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