County: Tipperary Site name: Longfordpass South
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 08E0412
Author: Sinclair Turrell, ADS Ltd, 110, Amiens Street, Dublin 1.
Site type: Platform
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 623624m, N 659325m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.684569, -7.650595
A single cutting measuring 5m by 2.2m, together with two small slot-trenches, were excavated and revealed the remains of a platform. It was subrectangular in plan and measured around 5m north to south by 6m. The platform was constructed of three layers of brushwood with some roundwood and split timbers laid along the edges of the platform and secured in place with short pegs. The uppermost layer of brushwood was separated from the underlying brushwood by a thin deposit of peat and may therefore have been a later addition. A wood sample from 2006 was identified as alnus (alder).
