County: Westmeath Site name: CLONEME/COOLRONAN/LISCLOGHER GREAT/WESTOWN WEST, LISCLOGHER BOG
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 05E0792
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
Lisclogher Bog is at the northernmost extent of the Allen group. The bog is split into two separate bogs by an unclassified road that runs north-east/south-west to Ballyhealy crossroads. The eastern part of the bog is no longer in production and has a small amount of forestry along the northern and eastern extent and private turbury along the southern extent. The area west of this road has been prepared for production with drainage ditches, but no production had taken place at the time of the survey. This part of the bog is surrounded by forestry on its northern and southern extents, with farmland at the western extent. The eastern part of the bog is 705ha in size and was originally in sod peat production; it has not been converted to milled peat production. There are several high face banks, with the remainder of the bog at a lower undrained level. Some revegetation has taken place since sod production ceased some years ago.
In the western part of the bog, drained for milled peat production, the drains are oriented roughly east–west and vary in number across the width of the bog. It is 246ha in size and was covered in extensive scrub and overgrowth, making visibility poor and field-walking very difficult.
No archaeological features were recorded during the survey of this bog.
