County: Kildare Site name: BALLYNAFAGH/BALLYNAGAPPAGH/BETAGHSTOWN/CORKERAGH/COLT/CURRYHILLS/KILMURRY, PROSPEROUS BOG
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 05E0820
Author: Sinclair Turrell, ADS Ltd, Windsor House, 11 Fairview Strand, Dublin 3.
Site type: Peatland survey
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 674479m, N 737713m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.384337, -6.880445
This small bog is located just north of Prosperous village and is surrounded by farmland, with some private bog on the western side. The bog covers an area of 229ha and forms part of the Bord na Móna Coolnamona group of works. The bog consists of 59 fields running north–south and is in full production. Bord na Móna began preparing the bog in 1978, levelling and cutting drains, although moss peat production began in 2003.
Five sites were recorded in Prosperous Bog. These were all classified as ‘sightings of archaeological wood’. The sites varied from a single roundwood exposed on the field surface to several elements exposed in section in the drain face. Two of the sites (KD-PPS002 and KD-PPS005) were dated and returned dates of AD 1010–1260 and 1300–1450 BC respectively.
