Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Structure - peatland
Clonfinlough, County Offaly, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Clonfinlough
- County
- Offaly
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.31947, -7.88888
- SMR number
- OF006-120----
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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 (Wth 0.97m; D 0.34m) consists of several broken oak roundwoods (L 0.79m max.; diam. 0.09m), pieces of brushwood (diam. 0.01-0.02m), and a portion of oak plank exposed in the face of a drain. At least one of the roundwoods was broken in antiquity. The plank is an inner tangential split (L 0.3m; Wth 0.29m; D 0.045-0.08m) with squared sides, two charred corners and several linear scores on the upper and lower faces. The scoring is parallel and obliquely running lines (L 0.06m max.) with no apparent pattern. Recorded by the Irish Archaeological Wetland Unit (University College, Dublin) in 1993. The evidence is not sufficient to warrant its acceptance as the remains of an archaeological monument.
The original survey description was compiled by the Irish Archaeological Wetland Unit (University College, Dublin). Assessed and revised by: Caimin O'Brien, Paul Walsh
Date of upload: 23 May 2011
Nearby in the register
- Post row - 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.