Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Road - class 2 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
- 53.34839, -7.23544
- SMR number
- OF010-404----
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 41.76m min.; Wth 1.35m; D 0.1m min.) is orientated NNW-SSE at its most S end the site but arcs around as it moves N where it is orientated NE-SW. The site consists of brushwood and roundwoods with occasional twigs and a single timber. The material is sparse and irregularly laid with no clear structure and has been damaged by machinery. The split timber may be ex situ. This site lies in poorly humified Sphagnum peat with ericaceous remains. SMR OF010-403---- lies 0.7m above the first sighting of this site.
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
- Road - class 3 togherunder 1 mi
- Platform - peatlandunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.