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
- 53.30980, -7.75497
- SMR number
- OF007-179----
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 25.934m; Wth 1.17m; D 0.23m) is orientated E-W in adjacent drain faces It consists of compact roundwoods (diam. 0.061-0.091m) and brushwood (diam. 0.023-0.045m), closely set and longitudinally laid. No woodworking is evident. The wood species identified were ash, alder, birch, Pyrus/Malus and willow. It is situated in moderately humified Sphagnum peat with Phragmites. The site was radiocarbon dated to 1491-1126 cal. BC (Beta 118037).
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.