Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Road - gravel/stone trackway - peatland
Lemanaghan, County Offaly, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lemanaghan
- County
- Offaly
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.30500, -7.74198
- SMR number
- OF007-327----
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 52.58m; Wth 2.36m; D 0.045m) is orientated NW-SE and composed of very irregularly laid rounded flagstones set in a bed of sand, clay marl and dried peat. The flags (diam. 0.09-0.27m) are widely spaced with a very uneven surface. The sand, clay and marl bed is 0.42m in depth at its centre and decreases to 0.1m at its edges. There are a greater number of flagstones at the centre of the site with more clay at the E end. Some of the marl appears to be burnt. Roots have penetrated the structure and some of these also appear burnt. The site is set in poorly humified Sphagnum peat rich in Phragmites.
Compiled by: Irish Archaeological Wetland Unit (University College Dublin).
Date of upload: 23 May 2011
Nearby in the register
- Structure - peatlandunder 1 mi
- Structure - peatlandunder 1 mi
- Structure - peatlandunder 1 mi
- Structure - peatlandunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.