County: Tipperary Site name: DER306 (INCLUDING DER300), Killoran
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 96E0298ext.
Author: Paul Stevens, Lisheen Archaeological Project, for Margaret Gowen & Co. Ltd.
Site type: Road - class 2 togher
Period/Dating: Bronze Age (2200 BC-801 BC)
ITM: E 622123m, N 666274m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.747084, -7.672321
This site was discovered during an intensive resurvey of the western TMF area; subsequent excavation revealed a trackway dating from 756–407 BC (UB-4189/4190) extending south-east from dry land to the bog. The trackway measured 18m in length, 1.5m in average width and 0.2m in average depth, and crossed margin forest peat. It was constructed of packed longitudinal roundwood running to an artificial platform, utilising a re-exposed fallen oak tree dated to 1148+9 BC (Q9489M) with a scatter of limestone cobbles. From this platform the track split in two, branching south-east as DER300 for a distance of 7m and east-north-east as DER69, Phase 2, for a distance of 69.5m (Excavations 1997, No. 509).
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