Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Road - class 3 togher
Rathdrum, County Offaly, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rathdrum
- County
- Offaly
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.30554, -7.35233
- SMR number
- OF010-183----
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 1.27m; D 0.3m) appears to be orientated ENE-WSW and is composed of split timbers, light brushwood, twigs, a single roundwood, occasional small stones and a small pocket of clay. At the base of the deposit is a single longitudinal roundwood, (diam. 0.1m) overlain by a transverse, radially split timber (L 1.27m; Wth 0.09m; D 0.1m). Directly above this is an irregular deposit of closely laid light brushwood and twigs, interspersed with occasional small stones and a small pocket of clay with two overlying small transverse split timbers. Three further small split timbers are irregularly deposited above the main body of the site. This site lies in moderately humified Sphagnum peat. A sighting of SMR OF010-161----, a key component of which is a gravel/clay deposit, is 2.8m to the SW. SMR OF010-184---- lies 3.9m SW of this site.
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.