Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Structure - peatland
Tumbeagh, County Offaly, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Tumbeagh
- County
- Offaly
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.31998, -7.76579
- SMR number
- OF007-147----
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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
A plank with two vertical pegs in the drain face (L 0.86m min.; Wth 0.45m; D 0.15m min.). The pegs appear to be set either side of the plank which is orientated NNW-SSE. The plank is an inner tangential split and has been extensively damaged by machinery. The site is situated in moderately humified Sphagnum peat with Eriophorum. This is one of a number of isolated plank sites which occur frequently in this bog and whose associations are ambiguous. However, it may be related to SMR OF007-132----, a togher of plank and peg construction located 2m to the S. Recorded by the Irish Archaeological Wetland Unit (University College, Dublin) in 1997. The evidence is not sufficient to warrant its acceptance as the remains of an archaeological monument.
The original survey description was compiled by the Irish Archaeological Wetland Unit (University College, Dublin). Assessed and revised by: Caimin O'Brien, Paul Walsh
Date of upload: 23 May 2011
Nearby in the register
- Structure - peatlandunder 1 mi
- Road - class 2 togherunder 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.