County: Kildare Site name: LULLYMORE EAST BOG, Lullybeg/Lullymore East
Sites and Monuments Record No.: KD012-014 Licence number: 04E1006
Author: Jane Whitaker, Archaeological Development Services Ltd.
Site type: Road - class 1 togher
Period/Dating: Medieval (AD 400-AD 1600)
ITM: E 670914m, N 725018m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.270756, -6.936867
Lullymore East Bog is located in the Derrygreenagh group of bogs. It is immediately west of the Lullymore dry land island and east of the smaller dry land island of Lullybeg. It is accessible from a small unclassified road that runs from the heritage park in Lullymore to Lullybeg dry land island. Lullybeg Island is currently in use as a tillage farm. Lullybeg Bog is immediately to the north of the access road, while Barnaran Bog is to the south of the rail line that runs to the Barnaran/Lodge level crossing. Lullymore East Bog covers an area of c. 80ha and is part of the Bord na Móna Derrygreenagh group of bogs. Lullymore East Bog was initially worked to provide milled peat to the Lullymore briquette factory until the 1990s, since which its milled peat has been required for the power station at Clonbullogue. There are a total of 38 production fields oriented northeast/south-west. The whole bog was in production at the time of the survey.
Three togher sites were surveyed in Lullymore East Bog. One of these was a substantial gravel togher and the other two were wooden toghers. The sites were located in close proximity, with the same orientation (north-north-east/south-south-west), and it is possible that all three provided access between the two dry land islands of Lullymore and Lullybeg. Two of the three sites were dated with KD-LYE001, dating to AD 380–660, and KD-LYE002, dating to AD 900–1160.
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