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Road - class 1 togher

Cappanalosset,Tumbeagh, County Offaly, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Road - class 1 togher, Cappanalosset, Tumbeagh, County Offaly, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Cappanalosset,Tumbeagh
County
Offaly
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
NULL
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.32144, -7.76727
SMR number
OF007-083----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

The site (L 337.47m; Wth 0.68m; D 0.16m) is orientated ENE-WSW and primarily consists of longitudinal oak planks laid end-to-end and secured in place with pegs through mortices in the ends of the timbers. At most of the W sightings, the site is below the water level and can only be identified as one, and occasionally two, longitudinal planks. At some sightings, it consists of two parallel planks (D 0.03-0.12m) or a plank with a roundwood and some brushwood. The width of the site varies (Wth 0.12-0.68m) along its length.
At one central location, it is composed of a substantial longitudinal plank (Wth 0.4m; D 0.08m), with a split oak peg (L 0.36m) through a broken mortice. Two short fragments of split timber overlie the plank adjacent to the peg. This sighting is set in Sphagnum peat containing Eriophorum and some ericaceous remains. A dendrochronological date of 1509±9 BC or later (Q9291) was returned for a sample from this sighting. SMR OF007-066----, SMR OF007-070----, SMR OF007-080---- and SMR OF007-082---- are located within 5m of this site along its S side and SMR OF007-067---- is 2.8m to the N.

Compiled by: Irish Archaeological Wetland Unit (University College Dublin).

Date of upload: 23 May 2011

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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