Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Road - class 3 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, -7.76230
- SMR number
- OF007-168----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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 (Wth 1.24m; D 0.2m) consists of brushwood, laid four pieces deep, with occasional twigs in opposing drain faces The site is arranged as two dense layers of material 0.3m apart. No woodworking is evident. The site is situated in well-humified Sphagnum peat with a large amount of Eriophorum.
Compiled by: Irish Archaeological Wetland Unit (University College Dublin).
Date of upload: 23 May 2011
Nearby in the register
- Road - class 2 togherunder 1 mi
- Road - gravel/stone trackway - peatlandunder 1 mi
- Structure - peatlandunder 1 mi
- Road - class 3 togherunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.