Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Road - class 2 togher
Killaghintober, County Offaly, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Killaghintober
- County
- Offaly
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.32132, -7.75982
- SMR number
- OF007-086----
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 16.204m; Wth 1.54m; D 0.27m) is orientated E-W and is composed of a plank superstructure on a substructure of planks, roundwoods and brushwood in the drain faces of two adjacent drains. The superstructure consists of transverse oak planks (Wth 1.54m; D 0.09m). The substructure (Wth. 1.08m; D 0.18m) consists of longitudinal oak planks with transverse split roundwoods and brushwood. Woodworking is evidenced by a superstructural plank with a possible mortice and by metal-cut chisel, wedge and pencil points on a number of elements. One of the substructural planks is radially split. It is situated in moderately humified Sphagnum peat with Eriophorum and ericaceous remains. The site has been dendrochronologically dated to 925±9 BC (Q9519). SMR OF007-087---- is located c. 5m to the N and SMR OF007-108---- is located c. 3m to the S.
Compiled by: Irish Archaeological Wetland Unit (University College Dublin).
Date of upload: 23 May 2011
Nearby in the register
- Structure - peatlandunder 1 mi
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.