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
- 53.30458, -7.35664
- SMR number
- OF010-305----
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 2.85m; D 0.47m) consists of a dense deposit of brushwood, possibly the remains of a hurdle, of uncertain orientation. In the centre, the deposit (Wth 1.05m), is up to six pieces deep with three possible sails evident. Additional dispersed elements occur below and to either side of this, extending the dimensions of the site. This site is in moderately humified Sphagnum peat with Eriophorum and frequent fibrous roots.
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.