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
- 53.34807, -7.23559
- SMR number
- OF010-405----
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 5.4m min.; Wth 2.55m min.; D 0.09m) is orientated WNW-ESE and consists of longitudinally laid mixed brushwood and roundwoods with transverse brushwood, occasional twigs and two uprights. The material is densely packed but is very fragmentary. The site lies in well-humified Sphagnum peat containing pockets of Eriophorum. This site lies 2.4m N of SMR OF010-402----.
Compiled by: Irish Archaeological Wetland Unit (University College Dublin).
Date of upload: 23 May 2011
Nearby in the register
- Structure - peatlandunder 1 mi
- Road - class 3 togherunder 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.