County: Tipperary Site name: Longfordpass South
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 08E0411
Author: Sinclair Turrell, ADS Ltd, 110, Amiens Street, Dublin 1.
Site type: Platform
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 623525m, N 659345m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.684753, -7.652057
One cutting measuring 4m by 2m, together with seven slot-trenches, were excavated here and revealed the remains of a brushwood and roundwood platform. The base of the platform was composed of two layers of brushwood and roundwood, overlain by a perpendicular layer of roundwoods. The structure was held together by a small number of pegs. The platform was probably sub-square in shape with sides up to 6.3m in length. Two wood samples taken in 2006 belonged to the pomoideae group of trees, which includes apple, pear, hawthorn and rowan.
