Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Road - class 3 togher
Castlearmstrong, County Offaly, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Castlearmstrong
- County
- Offaly
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.30972, -7.74160
- SMR number
- OF007-264----
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 (Wth 1.08m; D 0.12m) is orientated NNE-SSW. It consists of a dense deposit of longitudinally laid light brushwood and twigs in opposing drain faces. Occasional pieces lie at irregular angles. No evidence for woodworking is noted. It is situated in well-humified Sphagnum peat and is overlain by moderately humified Sphagnum peat. It has been radiocarbon dated to cal. AD 1302-1472 (Beta-118029).
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
- Structure - 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.