County: Offaly Site name: DERRYLEA BOG, AUGHRIM/BISHOPSWOOD/ CLONDOOLUSK/DERRYLEA/TICKANAGH/TRASCAN
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 04E1126
Author: Eoin Corcoran, Archaeological Development Services Ltd, Windsor House, 11 Fairview Strand, Dublin 3.
Site type: Peatland survey
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 657210m, N 713594m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.169749, -7.144336
This bog is situated in the counties of Offaly and Kildare, to the north-east of Portarlington town, east of a minor road between Portarlington and Clonbulloge and to the north of a minor road between Portarlington and Monasterevin. On the east the bog is bordered by a mixture of pasture and forestry. The only access to the bog is from the west and is provided by a lane beside a BnM railway off the minor road between Portarlington and Clonbulloge. Derrylea Bog covers an area of 640ha within BnM's Derrygreenagh works. This bog has been in industrial peat production since the late 1960s. Derrylea Bog was intitially in sod-peat production for Portarlington power station. It was brought into production later than some of the other bogs and, with advanced bagger machinery, the drains were closer together. It has been supplying milled peat to the new Edenderry power station for the last couple of years. There are 43 drains aligned from east to west. No archaeological sites were identified during the survey of Derrylea Bog. This may be due to the apparent relatively low depth of peat left in this bog.
