County: Offaly Site name: CLONSAST NORTH AND BULGE BOGS, Aghameelick/Ballaghassan/Clonad/ Clonavoe/Clonmore/Clonshannon/Nahana/ Walsh Island
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 04E1125
Author: Eoin Corcoran, Archaeological Development Services Ltd.
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 657383m, N 719341m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.221376, -7.140716
These bogs are situated to the west-south-west of Clonbulloge village and to the north-east of the village of Walsh Island, in Co. Offaly. Clonsast and Bulge Bogs cover an area of 2247ha within BnM's Derrygreenagh works; however, 80% of this is not in production, leaving a production area of only 449.4ha. The other 80% of the bog area is heavily overgrown and forested. Even the 20% production area had been out of production for the past three years and was beginning to become overgrown. Bulge Bog is completely covered by forestry, as it has been leased to Cóillte for the past fifteen years. As a result, it was possible to survey only very little of these two bogs. No archaeological remains were identified during the survey of Bulge and Clonsast North Bogs. The survey was problematic, due to the amount of overgrowth and forestry, which made large portions of Clonsast North and all of Bulge Bog impossible to examine.
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