Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Road - class 3 togher
Barrysbrook, County Offaly, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Barrysbrook
- County
- Offaly
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.34813, -7.23651
- SMR number
- OF010-390----
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 6m min.; Wth 1.08m; D 0.06m) consists of four roundwoods and c. thirty-two pieces of brushwood. The elements are densely laid and the majority run in a NW-SE direction. The overall site orientation is indiscernible. The wood is in moderate condition with some machine damage. The site lies in moderately humified Sphagnum peat with Eriophorum and ericaceous remains. SMR OF010-406---- lies 0.4m to the SE.
Compiled by: Irish Archaeological Wetland Unit (University College Dublin).
Date of upload: 23 May 2011
Nearby in the register
- Road - class 3 togherunder 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.