County: Kilkenny Site name: Baunmore Bog, Derryfadda/Inchirourke
Sites and Monuments Record No.: - Licence number: 06E0700
Author: Jane Whitaker, ADS Ltd, Windsor House, 11 Fairview Strand, Dublin 3.
Site type: Survey
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 624825m, N 663220m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.719515, -7.632542
This bog was surveyed as part of the 2006 Peatland Survey, which concentrated on Bord na Móna’s (BnM) Littleton group of bogs. Baunmore Bog is located 3km west of Urlingford and measures 616ha in size. It straddles counties Kilkenny and Tipperary. Five sites were recorded, comprising a single plank trackway dated to AD75369, two small trackway sites and two sightings of archaeological wood. A stray find of bog butter was also reported to the survey team by BnM, which was collected and transferred to the National Museum of Ireland.
