Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Structure - peatland
Edercloon, County Longford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Edercloon
- County
- Longford
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.81489, -7.89662
- SMR number
- LF004-022----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
This structure consisted of a single large roundwood (L 1.13m; diam. 0.2m max.) and six pieces of brushwood (L 1.4m; Wth 0.2m; D 0.12m) in a moderate condition. The roundwood was curved and knotty. The brushwood (diam. 0.025-0.5m; L 0.23m max.) was fragmentary. No toolmarks were encountered. This deposit lay 1.5m S of the W extent of another togher (LF004-009----) (Moore and O’Connor 2009a, 28, EDC 23).
Compiled by: Mary Tunney based on data kindly supplied by Caitríona Moore.
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Nearby in the register
- Structure - peatlandunder 1 mi
- Platform - peatlandunder 1 mi
- Road - class 2 togherunder 1 mi
- Platform - peatlandunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.