Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Road - class 3 togher
Clongawny, County Offaly, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Clongawny
- County
- Offaly
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.31603, -7.89151
- SMR number
- OF006-123----
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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 row (L 8.2 min.; Wth 2m; D 0.3m) of twelve posts (L 0.3-0.99m; diam. 0.065-0.1m) orientated ENE-WSW. The posts of alder, ash and birch occur singly at uneven intervals (0.25-1.7m) and at angles of 75-80°. The lower ends are trimmed to chisel and wedge points with a range of flat and concave tool facets some of which are very long (L 0.18m). A scatter of broken hazel brushwood (diam. 0.018-0.05m), twigs and an ash roundwood (diam. 0.08m) is located at the NW end of the site. The ends of some of the brushwood are worked to wedge points but most are simply broken or torn. Most of the brushwood lies obliquely to the line of posts singly or in pairs but one group of three parallel elements was noted. This site may be related to SMR OF006-081---- located 3m to the NW.
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
- Structure - peatlandunder 1 mi
- Structure - peatlandunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.