County: Longford Site name: Derryad Bog
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 13E0222
Author: Jane Whitaker
Site type: Peatland
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 605678m, N 768148m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.663054, -7.914092
A re-assessment field walking survey was carried out in Derryad Bog in August and September 2013 on behalf of Bord na Móna. The bog is 1km south-west of Killashee, is accessed at its eastern extent via an unclassified road that runs south 1.5km west of Killashee and at its eastern extent via the BnM Mountdillon Works. Large tracts of the southern part of the bog are no longer in production and are overgrown with substantial shrubs and small trees.
Derryad Bog was archaeologically surveyed 1991 by the IAWU at which time eighty sites were identified the majority of which were located in Annaghbeg townland in close proximity to a dryland island. The majority of these sites were on the field surface and were destroyed between the time they were identified and recording took place.
The 1999 BnM/ADS Re-Assessment identified twenty sites located in an area to the east of the Bord na Mona Mountdillon Works with none of the original 1991 sites relocated. Seven of these sites were excavated during the 2000 BnM Mitigation season under licences 00E0517-522?
A single, Road – Class 3 Togher, site was recorded in Derryad Bog during the course of the 2013 Re-Assessment Survey. This site was located at the eastern extent of the bog immediately south of the BnM Mountdillon workshop and offices in Clonfore townland.
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