Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Post row - peatland
Clongawny, County Offaly, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Clongawny
- County
- Offaly
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.31642, -7.88753
- SMR number
- OF006-081----
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
A series of sixteen hazel posts (L 3m; Wth 0.3m; D 0.7m) orientated ENE-WSW. The uprights from a gently curving arc and are set at angles of 55-70°. Individual posts were irregularly paired 0.12m-0.3m apart with an interval of 0.15-0.4m between the pairs. Some of the posts (L 0.234-0.616m; diam. 0.012-0.02m) are trimmed to wedge and pencil points with the remainder broken and a hazel heel formed the point of one post. This site may be related to SMR OF006-123----located 3m to the SE.
Compiled by: Irish Archaeological Wetland Unit (University College Dublin).
Date of upload: 23 May 2011
Nearby in the register
- Structure - peatlandunder 1 mi
- Road - class 3 togherunder 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.