County: Tipperary Site name: Longfordpass Bog, Kilmakill
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 10E0331
Author: Jane Whitaker, Archaeological Development Services Ltd, Unit 4, The Printhouse, 22–23 South Cumberland Street, Dublin 2.
Site type: Possible animal trap
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 622806m, N 661970m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.708371, -7.662507
This site was located on the field surface and in the opposing drain face during the course of the 2006 Peatland Survey. It had been truncated down the centre by drain-cutting machinery but it was clearly oval in plan. It was composed of regularly spaced brushwood pegs, with a smaller number of roundwood pegs inserted into the peat at angles of between 40º and 60º. The elements were moderately preserved, but the upper part of the structure had been removed by machinery. This site was not relocated during the 2010 excavation season and appears to have been removed during peat harvesting in the intervening four years.
Please see final report:
Whitaker, J. 2021. Final Excavation Report for Longfordpass Bog (Licences: 10E0330, 10E0331, 10E0332, 10E0333), Irish Archaeological Consultancy Ltd., 2019. Unpublished report prepared by IAC Archaeology.
