County: Tipperary Site name: Longfordpass South
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 08E0408
Author: Sinclair Turrell, ADS Ltd, 110, Amiens Street, Dublin 1.
Site type: Platforms
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 623519m, N 659300m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.684349, -7.652149
Two cuttings, each measuring 4m by 2m were excavated here, together with eight small slot-trenches. The site consisted of two adjacent platforms. The wood in and around Cutting 1 represented the remains of a brushwood and roundwood platform, probably square in shape, orientated north-east to south-west and measuring around 7m by 7m. The basal layer was composed of brushwood and was overlain by two layers of rough brushwood laid at right angles to each other. There were also occasional pegs fixing the elements in place. Wood chips were noted amongst the brushwood, indicating that some of wood had been worked on-site. The second platform, in Cutting 2, had a brushwood base overlain by two roundwood layers, also laid at right angles to each other. It was rectangular in plan and measured 5m by 3.5m. Wood chippings were again present. The two sites appeared to be close together in date, or even contemporary, occurring at a similar level in the bog and displaying several similarities in their composition and construction.
