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
- 53.30528, -7.35304
- SMR number
- OF010-200----
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
A substantial site (Wth 2.05m min.; D 0.6m min.) of twigs and brushwood with a roundwood and a timber. Most of the brushwood and the roundwood are parallel and overlie a bed of twigs (D 0.18m max.), present across the width of the site. There is a marked step in the profile of the site at its NE extent where it slopes steeply downward by 0.35m and continues below the water level. The site is in moderately humified Sphagnum peat with some fibrous roots. This is one of five closely situated sites along a 6m length of the drain including SMR OF010-201---- 0.2-0.34m above the NE extent of the site. SMR OF010-199----, SMR OF010-198---- and SMR OF010-197---- are to the SW.
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.