2006:1805 - Killeen Bog, Ballintogher/Cooldine/Curraheen/Derricknew/Liskeveen/Lurgoe, Tipperary

This bog was surveyed as part of the 2006 Peatland Survey which concentrated on Bord na Móna’s Littleton group of bogs. Killeen Bog is the southernmost bog in the group and is located either side of an unclassified road that runs from Littleton to Killenaule village. The bog is 640ha in size and is split into three production areas. Killeen 1 is the western extent of the bog. This area contained 48 production fields and no archaeological sites were recorded. Killeen 2 is the central part of the bog and is located immediately east of Killeen 1 to the south and east of the dryland island in Lurgoe townland where the Derrynaflan Hoard was found. Ten archaeological sites were recorded, all of which were in close proximity to the margins of the dryland island. The remains of a substantial gravel and plank trackway dating to ad 650–880, a short length of transverse roundwood trackway dating to ad 150–430, a platform dating to 820–420 bc, four sightings of archaeological wood and three platforms as well as the upper part of a rotary quern were identified. Killeen 3, the eastern extent of the bog, contained no archaeological features.