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
- 53.30996, -7.74155
- SMR number
- OF007-269----
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 0.51m; D 0.13m) consists of compact mixed brushwood with occasional twigs on the field surface The brushwood is up to five pieces deep and a number of outlying pieces are noted. There is no evidence for woodworking. The wood is considerably broken, most likely as a result of machine damage. Wood species include ash and hazel. The site sits in well-humified Sphagnum peat.
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 - class 3 togherunder 1 mi
- Road - class 3 togherunder 1 mi
- Road - class 3 togherunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.