County: Offaly Site name: CLONCON/DERRYCLURE/GRAIGUE/KILLEENMORE/KILLEIGH, Derryclure Bog
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 05E0798
Author: Jane Whitaker, ADS Ltd.
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 619211m, N 720627m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.235687, -7.712223
Derryclure Bog is located 13.5km south of Tullamore in Co. Offaly. The production bog covers an area of 200ha in size and forms part of the Bord na Móna Allen group of works. The bog consists of a maximum of 95 production fields oriented roughly north–south in the northern part of the bog. The southern part of the bog has a maximum of 50 production fields. The central part of the bog has several forested areas which were not in production, while the remainder of the bog was in production at the time of the survey.
No archaeological features were recorded during the survey of this bog.
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