A timber piled road was constructed over deep deposits of very compressible peat to access a small plantation in North Mayo. Attempts to construct the road using traditional methods were unsuccessful and the limited value of the crop meant that a cost-effective solution had to be used. The paper describes the site conditions, a description of the problems during the initial attempts to construct the road, details of the initial timber piled solution and subsequent alterations to the layout made during construction. Some observations from the successful completion of the road and recommnedations for future roads are given