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
- 53.37861, -7.30092
- SMR number
- OF003-014----
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 3.06m min.; Wth 1.88m; D 0.12m min.) is orientated E-W and consists of longitudinal brushwood (diam. 0.01-0.05m) and three pegs (diam. 0.02-0.04m) set at 60-80°. This site is in very poor condition with the elements fragmented due to exposure. It lies in moderately humified fen peat with Sphagnum and unidentified reeds. SMR OF003-013---- lies 4.64m to the NW and appears to run N-S beneath 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.