Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Road - class 1 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
- 53.31357, -7.74624
- SMR number
- OF007-279----
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 (L 446.29m; Wth 1.06m; D 0.2m) is orientated NE-SW and is composed of transverse and longitudinal planks and roundwoods. The structural composition of the site appears to vary along its length and is difficult to ascertain as a result of machine damage. Many pieces may have been at least partially displaced by milling. On the whole, however, the site appears to consist of longitudinal planks, often only one plank wide and deep, supported by sporadic transverse planks or roundwoods which may in turn rest upon longitudinal roundwood or plank runners to either side of the uppermost plank. Numerous pegs are also recorded as well as irregularly laid brushwood and woodchips and there is extensive evidence for woodworking with a metal tool. The site has been dendrochronologically to AD 594±9 (Q9249).
Compiled by: Irish Archaeological Wetland Unit (University College Dublin).
Date of upload: 23 May 2011
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.