At Derryville bog, part of the Littleton group of bogs worked by Bord na Móna, a routine fieldwalking survey in 2006 turned up two pieces of ancient timber lying less than half a metre below the surface, visible only because a drain had sliced through the peat and revealed them in cross-section.

What the surveyors found were two parallel wooden elements orientated roughly northwest to southeast and spaced about 0.4 metres apart. One was a longitudinal oak plank, 37 centimetres wide and 5 centimetres thick; the other a piece of roundwood about 10 centimetres in diameter. Together they suggest some kind of constructed feature, possibly a trackway or platform, the sort of wooden structure that people laid across boggy ground to make it passable or workable, though the surviving fragment is too small to say much more than that with confidence. The wood was dried out where the drain had exposed it to air, but the portions still sealed within the peat remained moderately preserved, which is precisely what bogs do best: starve organic material of oxygen and hold it in a kind of suspended state for centuries or longer. The find was catalogued by Jane Whitaker of Archaeological Development Services as part of a wider survey carried out under licence in 2006.