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
- 53.34817, -7.23562
- SMR number
- OF010-403----
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 0.5m min.; Wth 1.93m; D 0.27m) is orientated NNW-SSE and consists of two layers. The basal layer consists of roundwoods and occasional twigs, above which is a layer of mixed brushwood and twigs. In both layers the material is longitudinally laid. This site is in poor condition with the uppermost material having suffered machine damage. There is no evidence of woodworking. This site sits in poorly humified Sphagnum peat with ericaceous remains. SMR OF010-404---- lies 0.7m below this site at its E edge.
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
- Road - class 2 togherunder 1 mi
- Structure - peatlandunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.