County: Tipperary Site name: INCHIROURKE BOG, Inchirourke
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 06E0701
Author: Jane Whitaker, ADS Ltd.
Site type: Road - class 1 togher
Period/Dating: Bronze Age (2200 BC-801 BC)
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 Littleton group of bogs. Inchirourke Bog is a small area of bog measuring 89ha in size. Baunmore Bog is to the north and Longford Pass is to the south. Two sites were recorded during the course of the survey, a plank trackway 240m in length dated to after 1607 BC and a sighting of archaeological wood.
Windsor House, 11 Fairview Strand, Dublin 3
