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Road - class 2 togher

Tumbeagh, County Offaly, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Road - class 2 togher, 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
Tumbeagh
County
Offaly
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
NULL
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.32002, -7.76588
SMR number
OF007-142----

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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 120.11m; Wth 2.35m; D 0.1m) is orientated E-W in opposing drain faces and on the field surfaces It consists of a number of radially split planks and one tangentially split plank, laid longitudinally. Two pegs set at 90° and 70° in association with a timber fragment were all that remained at one of the sightings. A piece of brushwood in association with some of the planks may constitute a third peg which has been dislodged. A small number of planks are irregularly laid and some of the elements may have had a substructural function but milling activity may have dislodged them from their original position. A number of planks have mortices, worked ends and branch-trimming but the toolmarks are degraded in most instances. A single plank is charred. The pegs were worked to chisel points by metal tools. The site is situated in poorly to moderately humified Sphagnum peat with Eriophorum and ericaceous remains. The site dendrochronologically dated to 954±9 BC or later (Q9523).

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.

Sites and Monuments Record data: National Monuments Service, Government of Ireland, licensed under CC BY 4.0. Record text is reproduced unchanged. National Monuments Service, Government of Ireland · CC BY 4.0
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