2006:1878 - LONGFORD PASS BOG, Kilmakill/Leigh/Longfordpass North, Tipperary

NMI Burial Excavation Records

County: Tipperary Site name: LONGFORD PASS BOG, Kilmakill/Leigh/Longfordpass North

Sites and Monuments Record No.: - Licence number: 06E0699

Author: Jane Whitaker, ADS Ltd.

Site type: Road - class 1 togher, Road - road/trackway and Platform

Period/Dating: Multi-period

ITM: E 623414m, N 661179m

Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.701238, -7.653568

This bog was surveyed as part of the 2006 Peatland Survey, which concentrated in Bord na Móna’s Littleton group of bogs. Longford Pass Bog measures 265ha in size and is located north of the N8. Six sites were recorded in this bog, which comprised a substantial gravel and plank trackway dating to 986 BC, two further plank trackways, a roundwood trackway, a possible animal trap and an archaeological wood site.

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