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
- 53.37867, -7.29916
- SMR number
- OF003-027----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗
The National Monuments Service's description
The site (L 8.54m min.; Wth 1.62m; D 0.04m) is orientated NNW-SSE and is extensively machine damaged. It is composed of longitudinal, mixed brushwood and some twigs. The brushwood is fragmentary and some pieces are irregularly laid. The wood is in poor condition and set in poorly humified Sphagnum peat with Eriophorum. SMR OF003-026---- is adjacent to this site to the S and SMR OF003-028---- is 4m to the NE.
Compiled by: Irish Archaeological Wetland Unit (University College Dublin).
Date of upload: 23 May 2011
Nearby in the register
- Structure - peatlandunder 1 mi
- Structure - peatlandunder 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.