1999:739 - CASTLETOWN BOG, Castlearmstrong, Offaly

NMI Burial Excavation Records

County: Offaly Site name: CASTLETOWN BOG, Castlearmstrong

Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 99E0292

Author: Ellen O'Carroll, ADS Ltd.

Site type: Road - class 3 togher

Period/Dating: Undetermined

ITM: E 617236m, N 728806m

Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.309261, -7.741371

This site was an area of brushwood. Three clusters of brushwood survived in the cutting, the least damaged pieces at the southern end. They were placed longitudinally and measured 15–45mm in diameter. Some pegs and transversely laid twigs were also found at this end of the cutting. The twigs functioned as packing material in between the longitudinals. The remaining brushwood in the cutting was substructural in appearance and was more irregularly arranged, with several peg-like elements. The wood represented the remains of some superstructural and substructural elements of a brushwood togher. The site was traced for 11m.

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