County: Kildare Site name: COOLAGHT/DEREENS/KILMEAGE/LATTENSBOG/MYLERSTOWN/NEWTOWNDONORE/OLDTOWNDONORE/RAHEENS/RAHERNAN,ALLEN BOG
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 05E0819
Author: Sinclair Turrell, ADS Ltd, Windsor House, 11 Fairview Strand, Dublin 3.
Site type: Peatland survey
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 672925m, N 712604m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.158934, -6.909568
Allen Bog is 1km east of the village of Kilmeage, north of an unclassified road connecting the R415, south of Kilmeage, with the R445, west of Naas. It is almost entirely surrounded by undeveloped bog and very extensive private turf plots, beyond which is farmland, mostly pasture. The bog covers an area of 406ha and forms part of the Bord na Móna Coolnamona group of works. It consists of 129 fields running east–west, which are divided into eastern and western areas by a north–south-running industrial railway. Allen Bog has been in production for thirty years.
A site within the bog in the townland of Rathernan at the south-west extent (SMR 18:7) was recorded in 1909 but is no longer extant. Two sightings were identified in Allen Bog, a find spot of a possibly modern wooden bow (KD-ALN001) and a single worked piece of wood (KD-ALN002), also thought to be modern. Both were found on the field surface.
