Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Road - class 2 togher
Derrygreenagh, County Offaly, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Derrygreenagh
- County
- Offaly
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.38890, -7.24971
- SMR number
- OF003-038----
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 14.4m min.; Wth 1.394m; D 0.166m) is orientated NW-SE in the drain face and on the adjacent field surface At one sighting it consists of a dense bed of light brushwood and twigs overlain by heavy brushwood and a single roundwood. All the elements are transversely laid apart from the roundwood and a single piece of heavy brushwood, which are longitudinally laid. In another location, at a slightly lower level, it consists of longitudinal brushwood, a single roundwood and a peg. This material is very fragmentary due to milling and exposure. Woodworking is evidenced by a degraded chisel point. It lies in poorly humified Sphagnum peat with Eriophorum and ericaceous remains. Radiocarbon dated to 1683-1409 cal. BC (Wk-11724).
Compiled by: Irish Archaeological Wetland Unit (University College Dublin).
Date of upload: 23 May 2011
Nearby in the register
- Post row - peatlandunder 1 mi
- Structure - peatlandunder 1 mi
- Road - class 3 togherunder 1 mi
- Structure - peatlandunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.