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I doubt it as the crash was during WW2. When the hill burns the heather is burned and the top of the peat gets scorched. The heather soon regenerates over the following few years and can burn again. It was just a little circle of green heather in a hillside of blackened burned heather . The initial crash would have seen wreckage spread over a wide area as the plane exploded. As far as I am aware the site with the cross is the initial impact. It was bad weather and they thought they were somewhere else. The plane was consequently too low and hit the heights. They thought they were still over water but were miles off course. It is not the only crash site around here but one of the few with pieces of fuselage left.
A plane was dug out of a bog virtually intact a few years ago. It was a spitfire.
Spitfire to be raised from bog after 70 years
The Donegal Spitfire | Donegal Diaspora

Yep fairly common occurance!