County: Meath Site name: Kinnegad Bog, Knockersally
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 07E0499
Author: Nicola Rohan, Archaeological Development Services Ltd, 110 Amiens Street, Dublin 1.
Site type: Platform and archaeological wood
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 659418m, N 742608m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.430231, -7.105892
The platform was one of ten sites excavated in Kinnegad Bog, Co. Meath, as part of the 2007 Bord na Móna archaeological mitigation programme. It was initially identified in 2005 as a possible platform (ME-KDY011). The site was located 15m south of plank trackway 07E0496 (see No. 1339 above) and 1m south-west of platform 07E0501 (see No. 1343 below). It was a sampled and dated after survey to 1410–1000 bc. A single cutting measuring 2m by 4m was excavated along the drain edge. The platform was composed of regularly laid roundwood longitudinals that were orientated north-east/south-west, with longitudinal brushwoods supported by transverse brushwoods on the south-east side of the roundwoods. Many of the roundwoods displayed evidence for branch trimming and all appeared to be pine. The platform was underlain by a layer of twigs and measured 2.7m in width and 0.3–0.5m in depth.
Two trenches were excavated on the western side of the cutting to establish the full length of the platform. The end of the platform was recorded 2.95m west of the cutting indicating a total length of 4.9m. A small deposit of archaeological wood was recorded in the north-east corner of the cutting, 0.4m below the platform. It measured 0.8m in length and 0.76m in width and was composed of a transversely laid heavy brushwood underlain by sparsely laid longitudinal light brushwoods. Its depth below the platform indicated that it clearly pre-dates the more substantial structure.
