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
- 53.32063, -7.76301
- SMR number
- OF007-126----
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 (Wth 0.25m; D 0.04m) is composed of a single plank with two pieces of brushwood (diam. 0.02-0.055m) in the drain face. The light piece is laid alongside the plank, however, the heavy piece is situated in a different peat stratum below the other elements and therefore its association is unclear. The site may represent a disturbed togher but no direct associations with similarly composed sites in the vicinity could be discerned. The site is situated in moderately humified Sphagnum peat with Eriophorum and ericaceous remains. The site was dendrochronologically dated to 1059±9 BC or later (Q9528). SMR OF007-127---- is located c. 3m to the N.
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.