Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Road - class 3 togher
Corracullin, County Offaly, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Corracullin
- County
- Offaly
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.34297, -7.77966
- SMR number
- OF007-189----
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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 (Wth 0.82m; D 0.59m) consists of densely packed brushwood (diam. 0.01-0.04m) and roundwood (diam. 0.08-0.11m) in opposing drain faces, similarly orientated NNE-SSW, and set on a bedding of twigs. Birch and alder were the main species identified with some willow also present. The site is within the uppermost fen peat which consisted of well-humified mid-brown Sphagnum with Phragmites, which was inundated by raised bog which consisted of moderately humified Sphagnum. The site is located 5m S of SMR OF007-187---- and SMR OF007-188---- and 4.50 N of SMR OF007-185----.
Compiled by: Irish Archaeological Wetland Unit (University College Dublin).
Date of upload: 23 May 2011
Nearby in the register
- Structure - peatlandunder 1 mi
- Road - class 3 togherunder 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.