County: Tipperary Site name: Longfordpass South
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 08E0407
Author: Sinclair Turrell, ADS Ltd, 110, Amiens Street, Dublin 1.
Site type: Platform
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 623535m, N 659247m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.683872, -7.651916
This site was investigated within a 4m by 3m cutting and a small slot-trench. These revealed the remains of a brushwood and roundwood platform, which was constructed from two layers of wood laid at right angles to each other, with some larger elements placed around the perimeter. The platform measured around 5m from north-west to south-east but was truncated by a drain on the western side. Two wood samples taken in 2006 were identified as alnus (alder).
A large and well-preserved wooden vessel was found at the north-eastern edge of the site. The top of the vessel lay at the same level as the rest of the wood in the cutting and had brushwood elements both above and below it, indicating that it had been deposited while the site was still in use. The vessel was 0.66m long, 0.27m wide and around 0.21m deep. It was rectangular in plan with rounded corners, and had shallow curving sides. At one end there was a large jug-type handle. The vessel, probably a type of trough, had been finely crafted from a single piece of wood and displayed numerous small facets. It was exposed, recorded and then removed as a block, together with the surrounding peat and the peat fill.
