Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Road - class 2 togher
Tumbeagh, County Offaly, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Tumbeagh
- County
- Offaly
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.32150, -7.76812
- SMR number
- OF007-079----
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
The site (L 30.45m; Wth 1.7m; D 0.09m) is orientated NE-SW and consists of light brushwood and roundwoods, evident at two sightings on the field surface. The SW sighting is composed of transverse and longitudinal light brushwood and a transverse roundwood (diam. 0.09m). The brushwood species are of alder and hazel and the roundwood is of ash. SMR OF007-075----, a similar site up to 6.3m to the S, runs parallel to this site. SMR OF007-078---- is located in the opposite drain face from the E sighting of this site.
Compiled by: Irish Archaeological Wetland Unit (University College Dublin).
Date of upload: 23 May 2011
Nearby in the register
- Road - class 2 togherunder 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.