County: Offaly Site name: CLONAD (OF-CLO0024)
Sites and Monuments Record No.: OF018-101 Licence number: 04E0728
Author: Eoin Corcoran, Archaeological Development Services Ltd.
Site type: Road - class 3 togher
Period/Dating: Prehistoric (12700 BC-AD 400)
ITM: E 647074m, N 723913m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.263480, -7.294394
This site was recorded by the IAWU in 2001 as a tertiary togher (IAWU 2002). It was described as a dense deposit of regularly laid brushwood on the field surface, possibly the remains of a hurdle panel. Unfortunately, when it came to excavating this site, all that remained was a concentration of woodchips on the field surface; the site no longer existed. As a result, no cutting was excavated for this site.
References
IAWU 2002 Archaeological survey report: Clonad Bog, Co. Offaly. Unpublished report commissioned by Dúchas, the Heritage Service.
Whitaker, J. and Corcoran, E. 2020. Final Excavation Report for Clonad Bog, Co. Offaly (Licences: 04E0722–04E0729), Irish Archaeological Consultancy Ltd., 2019. Unpublished report prepared by IAC Archaeology.
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