2000:0624 - LOUGH BANNOW 2, Corlea, Longford

This site was located close to the present milled surface on the western side of a Bord na Móna field drain. Excavation showed that it was greatly disturbed by the milling process, and no clear picture of the original site emerged in the course of the work. Much of the wood uncovered was in a very degraded state and not in situ. Sufficient elements survived, however, to indicate the vague trace of a togher, 0.4–1.2m wide and orientated north-north-west/ south-south-east. This was constructed with longitudinal roundwoods and brushwood, up to 0.12m in diameter, which were probably originally underlain by transverse elements. A number of posts or pegs were uncovered, most of which were located to the east-south-east of the site and showed no apparent structural relationship with the togher. A complex archaeological site that includes woven elements was recorded at a lower level than the present site in the bottom of the adjacent field drain. A similar complex was noted in the course of the 1999 reassessment only 14m to the west-north-west in the next drain. This give evidence of intense archaeological activity in the area and may represent the remains of prehistoric habitation on the actual bog surface.

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