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
- 53.32057, -7.76373
- SMR number
- OF007-130----
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 32.64m; Wth 0.2m min.; D 0.06m) is orientated NE-SW and consists of radially split oak planks and split pegs in three separate drain faces. All the elements are widely spaced and only one of the planks is orientated NE-SW. The site may be a disturbed togher or one of a number of isolated plank sites which occur frequently in this bog. It is situated in well-humified Sphagnum peat with Eriophorum and ericaceous remains. SMR OF007-129----, an oak plank, is located c. 4m to the S and SMR OF007-113----, a worked roundwood, is located c. 4m 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.