Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Road - class 3 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
- 53.32069, -7.76253
- SMR number
- OF007-121----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
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 3.78m; Wth 0.98m; D 0.49m) consists of a single plank superstructure on a substructure of planks and brushwood in the drain face. Two possible oak pegs are also incorporated into the structure but these appear to have been disturbed. The superstructure and the substructure are set at approximate right angles to one another but the site has no discernible orientation. The planks are radially split. Woodworking is evidenced by a mortice in one of the substructural planks and by a worked end on one of the pegs. It is situated in moderately humified Sphagnum peat with Eriophorum and ericaceous remains. The site was dendrochronologically dated to 948±9 BC or later (Q9527).
Compiled by: Irish Archaeological Wetland Unit (University College Dublin).
Date of upload: 23 May 2011
Nearby in the register
- Structure - 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.