County: Laois Site name: BALLINA/BOGHLONE/CAPPAGH SOUTH/CLONADACASEY/CLONBOYNE/CLONCOURSE/CLONDOUGLAS OR CLONKEEN/COLLNAMONA/GORTEEN/IRY/ROSS, COOLNAMONA BOG
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 05E0822
Author: Sinclair Turrell, ADS Ltd, Windsor House, 11 Fairview Strand, Dublin 3.
Site type: Peatland survey
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 644825m, N 693938m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.994295, -7.332301
Coolnamona Bog is situated to the north-west of the N7 motorway, 2km west of Portlaoise. To the south it is separated from the motorway by farmland, which also borders the bog on the western and eastern sides. There is forestry to the north, as well as extensive areas of private turf plots. The bog covers an area of 661ha and forms part of the Bord na Móna Coolnamona group of works. The bog consists of 95 fields running east–west along its long axis. There is an industrial railway in the eastern half of the bog which runs east–west before branching north–south around the centre of the bog. Most of the bog is in production, although there are extensive areas of scrub around the southern, eastern and north-eastern fringes.
No archaeological features were recorded during the survey of this bog.
