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
- 53.30514, -7.35721
- SMR number
- OF010-316----
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 regular deposit (Wth 0.74m; D 0.25m) of closely set pieces of brushwood. Although the orientation of the structure is unclear all the elements are orientated E-W and slope downward at the NE extent. The site is in poorly humified Sphagnum peat with occasional Eriophorum. SMR OF010-317---- and SMR OF010-318---- are 0.25m and 1.2m to the NE, respectively.
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.