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
- 53.30362, -7.35586
- SMR number
- OF010-266----
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 3.85m min.; Wth 2.54m; D 0.18m) is orientated ENE-WSW and consists of brushwood (diam. 0.014-0.035m) and occasional twigs. The majority of the elements are longitudinally laid and closely spaced. There is a concentration of material towards the centre of the site. Woodworking is evidenced by a metal-cut chisel point. The site lies in moderately humified Sphagnum peat. SMR OF010-265---- is 4.8m 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
- Road - class 3 togherunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.