County: Offaly Site name: BALLYCON BOG, Eskermore
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 02E0838
Author: Cara Murray, Irish Archaeological Wetland Unit
Site type: Excavation - miscellaneous
Period/Dating: Undetermined
ITM: E 653620m, N 727379m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.293997, -7.195712
Ballycon Bog is a Bord na Móna bog that has gone out of milled peat production and was surveyed on behalf of Dúchas as part of the Peatland Survey 2002. It is c. 6km east of Daingean, immediately south of the Philipstown River. It comprises 273ha and is adjacent to Derrycricket Bog to the south and Cloncreen Bog to the east. Two single posts were recorded along the north-eastern edge of the bog.
Department of Archaeology, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin 4
