Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Road - class 2 togher
Barrysbrook,togher (phillipstown Lower By.), County Offaly, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Barrysbrook,togher (phillipstown Lower By.)
- County
- Offaly
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.34670, -7.23583
- SMR number
- OF010-396----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗
The National Monuments Service's description
The site (L 45.15m min.; Wth 2.05m; D 0.08m min.) is orientated NNE-SSW and consists of an irregular deposit of mixed brushwood and roundwoods. The wood has suffered machine damage and is in poor condition. A single chisel point is present. The site lies in poorly humified Sphagnum peat with ericaceous remains and some Eriophorum. SMR OF010-397---- lies 3.6m to the S.
Compiled by: Irish Archaeological Wetland Unit (University College Dublin).
Date of upload: 23 May 2011
Nearby in the register
- Road - class 2 togherunder 1 mi
- Road - class 3 togherunder 1 mi
- Road - class 3 togherunder 1 mi
- Road - class 2 togherunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.