County: Tipperary Site name: CARRICKHILL BOG, Derryville
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 06E0703
Author: Jane Whitaker, ADS Ltd.
Site type: Road - unclassified togher
Period/Dating: Neolithic (4000BC-2501 BC)
ITM: E 620800m, N 668557m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.767660, -7.691781
This bog was surveyed as part of the 2006 Peatland Survey, which concentrated in Bord na Móna’s Littleton group of bogs. Carrickhill Bog measures 162ha in size and is located to the north-west of Derryville Bog, 2km south of Templetouhy village. A single possible togher site was recorded in Carrickhill Bog in the base of a drain which was dated to 3790–3680 BC.
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