Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Linear earthwork
Tullaghbeg, County Offaly, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Tullaghbeg
- County
- Offaly
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.31952, -7.95137
- SMR number
- OF006-033----
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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
Situated on an esker ridge running E-W in undulating countryside with bog on all sides. A wide flat bottomed trench (Wth 4m; L 5m approx.) which is orientated on a N-S axis and is flanked on either side by a steep sided bank (Wth 3m; int. H 9m; ext. H 3m) of earth and stone. Locally known as the 'Split Hills' because it cuts across an E-W esker ridge. According to local information the site was originally longer but was reduced in length by agricultural improvements. The site could have acted as a defensive linear earthwork belonging to a territorial boundary, this would explain why it cuts through an esker which would have acted as a natural roadway across the marshy terrain.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Offaly' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload: 23 May 2011
Nearby in the register
- Bullaun stoneunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Crannogunder 1 mi
- Causewayunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.