Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Structure - peatland
Castlearmstrong, County Offaly, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Castlearmstrong
- County
- Offaly
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.30937, -7.74202
- SMR number
- OF007-271----
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
An area (Wth 0.71m; D 0.15m) of loosely distributed, heavy brushwood on the field surface. A concentration of brushwood is noted towards the W end of the site, in which the pieces are orientated in a WNW-ENE direction. To the E of this area, a number of more irregularly placed pieces are also recorded. The wood has been subject to some machine damage and the site may represent the remnants of a more coherent structure. Toolmarks are evident on a number of pieces and three have been split. Wood species include hazel. The site is located in poorly humified Sphagnum peat. Recorded by the Irish Archaeological Wetland Unit (University College, Dublin) in 1993. The evidence is not sufficient to warrant its acceptance as the remains of an archaeological monument.
The original survey description was compiled by the Irish Archaeological Wetland Unit (University College, Dublin). Assessed and revised by: Caimin O'Brien, Paul Walsh
Date of upload: 23 May 2011
Nearby in the register
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.