County: Westmeath Site name: CLONDALEE MORE/CLONYCAVAN/GRANGEMORE/RIVERDALE/ROBINSTOWN, BALLIVOR BOG
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 05E0796
Author: Jane Whitaker, ADS Ltd, Windsor House, 11 Fairview Strand, Dublin 3.
Site type: Peatland survey
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 635445m, N 753975m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.534531, -7.465322
Ballivor Bog is located immediately south of the R156, which runs from Raharney to Ballivor, 3km from Ballivor village. It is surrounded on its eastern, southern and western sides by farmland. There is a small area of forestry in the south-west corner. The bog covers an area of 630ha and forms part of the Bord na Móna Allen group. Just over one-third of the bog, to the east, is currently in milled peat production, while the remainder is ‘cutaway’. Until fairly recently, the cutaway part of the bog was in sod peat production. While there are occasional drains, this entire area is completely overgrown with heather, sedges and some hazel and birch saplings. The production bog consists of 103 drains oriented north-north-west/south-south-east. There is an industrial railway that runs north–south before turning north-east/south-west and then branching north-west/south-east around the centre of the bog.
No archaeological features were recorded during the survey of this bog.
