Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Road - class 2 togher
Tumbeagh, County Offaly, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Tumbeagh
- County
- Offaly
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.31650, -7.76263
- SMR number
- OF007-167----
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 29.71m; Wth 2.6m) is orientated WNW-ESE. It forms a curved rather than a linear arrangement and consists of brushwood, laid 2-3 pieces deep, roundwoods, laid one piece deep, and a small number of pegs. The roundwoods are closely spaced and are transversely laid for the most part, although some are longitudinally laid. The brushwood (diam. 0.018-0.045m) is irregularly laid. Five roundwoods were half-split and have metal toolmarks. One piece of brushwood has metal-cut chisel points at each end and evidence for tearing. One of the roundwoods has a metal-cut wedge point. The site is situated in two different peat strata both composed of Sphagnum peat with Eriophorum and ericaceous remains but with humification ratings ranging from poorly to moderately humified. The site was radiocarbon dated to cal. AD 1217-1407 (Beta 118036).
Compiled by: Irish Archaeological Wetland Unit (University College Dublin).
Date of upload: 23 May 2011
Nearby in the register
- Road - class 3 togherunder 1 mi
- Road - gravel/stone trackway - peatlandunder 1 mi
- Road - class 3 togherunder 1 mi
- Structure - peatlandunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.