Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Road - class 3 togher
Bunsallagh, County Offaly, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Bunsallagh
- County
- Offaly
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.37863, -7.30098
- SMR number
- OF003-013----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
The site (L 10.42m min.; Wth 1.04m; D 0.12m) is orientated N-S and consists of tightly packed, longitudinal mixed brushwood, which overlie a dense twig bed. Occasional irregularly laid brushwood lie at the E edge of the site. This site lies in moderately humified fen peat with Sphagnum and occasional unidentified reeds. SMR OF003-014---- lies 4.64m to the SE and appears to run E-W above this site.
Compiled by: Irish Archaeological Wetland Unit (University College Dublin).
Date of upload: 23 May 2011
Nearby in the register
- Road - class 3 togherunder 1 mi
- Road - class 3 togherunder 1 mi
- Structure - peatlandunder 1 mi
- Structure - peatlandunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.