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
- 53.30982, -7.74136
- SMR number
- OF007-272----
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 0.97m; D 0.175m) is orientated NW-SE and composed of mixed brushwood in opposing drain faces. The brushwood is largely orientated longitudinally. The site is more compact towards the centre where the brushwood is three pieces deep. Towards the edges, the brushwood is more dispersed and is 1-2 pieces deep. Evidence for woodworking and branch-trimming is noted on a number of pieces. Wood species include birch and alder. The site sits on moderately humified Sphagnum peat and is overlain by more poorly humified Sphagnum peat. It is located 1.7m SW of SMR OF007-273---- which is situated in the overlying peat stratum.
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
- Road - class 3 togherunder 1 mi
- Structure - peatlandunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.