County: Offaly Site name: CAVEMOUNT BOG, Mullalough or Cavemount/Killeen
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 01E0476
Author: Conor McDermott, Irish Archaeological Wetland Unit
Site type: Excavation - miscellaneous
Period/Dating: Multi-period
ITM: E 649647m, N 729373m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.312308, -7.254986
Cavemount Bog is a Bord na Móna bog producing milled peat and was surveyed on behalf of Dúchas as part of the Peatland Survey 2001. It is approximately 3km south-west of Rhode and lies between the Grand Canal and the Daingean–Edenderry road. It is 471ha in total area and is adjacent to another Bord na Móna bog, Esker, which lies to the east. A total of nine archaeological sites were recorded in Cavemount Bog: three toghers, predominantly constructed of brushwood and roundwoods, six deposits of worked wood and one deposit of unworked wood. Two sites, deposits of worked wood, have so far been dated. One produced a radiocarbon date of 3356 cal. BC and the other was dendro-dated to 1054 ± 9 BC or later. The sites form a discrete distribution in the south-western corner of the bog adjacent to a private peat company. The majority of these sites are located on or near the field surface.
Department of Archaeology, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin 4
