County: Kildare Site name: Drehid Bog, Drehid
Sites and Monuments Record No.: - Licence number: 06E0746
Author: Sinclair Turrell and Rupert Flood, Archaeological Development Services Ltd, Windsor House, 11, Fairview Strand, Dublin 3.
Site type: No archaeological significance
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 673601m, N 734626m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.356720, -6.894371
Monitoring of peat stripping, associated with the first phase of the development of a waste management facility at Drehid Bog, was carried out on behalf of Bord na Móna from 14 August to 15 December 2006. This bog, also known as Timahoe West, forms part of the Allen group of bogs and is situated 9km east of Edenderry, between the Hill of Allen and Carbury Hill. In order to construct the 5km access road, an area of c. 200m by 400m was stripped down to the underlying gravel and stone. An area for the waste management plant, measuring 500m by 225m, was also stripped of peat. The peat throughout the bog was mainly a fibrous, poorly humified sphagnum peat with occasional tree roots. The maximum depth of peat was 3.5m, except in an area of virgin bog along the south-west edge where a depth of 7m was recorded. Nothing of archaeological interest was revealed during the monitoring.
