County: Meath Site name: KILLASKILLEN/KNOCKERSALLY OR COLEHILL/MOYDRUM OR OR BOGSTOWN/PARK/TIRCROGHAN, Kinnegad Bog
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 05E0795
Author: Jane Whitaker, ADS Ltd.
Site type: Excavation - miscellaneous
Period/Dating: Multi-period
ITM: E 688918m, N 762584m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.605548, -6.656417
Kinnegad Bog is sometimes referred to by Bord na Móna (BnM) as Rossan Bog and is located 1km south of Kinnegad village in Co. Meath. The production bog covers an area of 330ha and forms part of the BnM Allen group of works. There are private turbury plots along the north-eastern, southern and south-western extent of the production bog. The eastern extent has forestry, while the western and southern extent is mainly farmland. The bog consists of 110 production fields oriented north–south. An industrial rail line runs across the northern extent of the bog. Most of the bog was in production at the time of the survey, apart from five fields immediately south of the works offices, which were overgrown to varying degrees and some of which were being excavated to facilitate additional drainage.
Nineteen sites were recorded in the southern extent of the bog. These consisted of two plank trackways (ME-KND001 and ME-KND002), one possible trackway and sixteen brushwood and roundwood sites close to one of the plank trackways (ME-KND001). The sites were all located near the southern extent of the bog. ME-KND001 and ME-KND003–19 were located west of a wooden area of higher ground that projects into the bog from the surrounding farmland. ME-KND002 was oriented roughly east–west and was located east of the aforementioned wooded area.
Eight dates were obtained for the Kinnegad Bog sites, seven of which clustered in the Bronze Age (ME-KND001, 2, 6, 10, 11, 15 and 16), with a single Early Christian date from ME-KND004.
Windsor House, 11 Fairview Strand, Dublin 3
