Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Road - gravel/stone trackway - peatland
Clonascra, County Offaly, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Clonascra
- County
- Offaly
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.33999, -7.93363
- SMR number
- OF006-006----
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗
The National Monuments Service's description
Report of a stone road in Bord na Móna boglands leading through Clonascra townland in a N-S direction towards Bloomhill. No further information available. (McDonald, T. 1987, 12)
Located on low-lying land between bog and well drained land. Narrow trackway (Wth 4m) of earth and stone composition running in a N/S direction between bog and well drained land. May originally have joined up with the pilgrims road.
Compiled by: Irish Archaeological Wetland Unit (University College Dublin).
Date of upload: 23 May 2011
Nearby in the register
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Structure - peatlandunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.