County: Kildare Site name: DERRYBRENNAN BOG, Derrybrennan/ Kilpatrick/Ticknevin
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 04E1003
Author: Jane Whitaker, Archaeological Development Services Ltd.
Site type: Road - class 2 togher
Period/Dating: Modern (AD 1750-AD 2000)
ITM: E 668779m, N 728846m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.305435, -6.968048
Derrynrennan Bog is located in the north-eastern extent of the survey area. It is to the south of the Grand Canal and is accessed from an unclassified road off the R403, 7km south of Derrinturn and 4km north of Allenwood, Co. Kildare. This small road runs southwards to Lullymore dry land island along the eastern side of Derrybrennan Bog. The bog is bordered to the south-west by Glashabaun South Bog and to the north and north-east by pastureland. Derrybrennan Bog covers an area of 148ha and is part of the Bord na Móna Derrygreenagh group of bogs. Derrybrennan Bog was initially milled to supply peat for the briquette factory at Derrybrennan and in later years to supply peat to the new power station at Edenderry. There are a total of 95 production fields, running north-north-east/south-south-west.
Three sites were recorded in the north-western extent of this bog. These consist of a tertiary togher and two isolated pieces of worked wood. All three sites were disturbed or damaged and there was evidence of disturbance in the form of buried plastic, particularly in the north-western part of the bog. Two of the sites were dated and both were modern in origin (KD-DBN001 and 003).
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