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
- 53.34818, -7.23655
- SMR number
- OF010-406----
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 13.7m; Wth 6.1m; D 0.08m min.) is orientated N-S and consists of roundwoods, brushwood and pegs with occasional twigs. The elements are regularly and densely laid, orientated NE-SW and NW-SE, forming a criss-cross surface. Four metal-cut toolmarks are present. The wood is in poor to moderate condition. The site lies in well-humified Sphagnum peat with small pockets of Eriophorum and ericaceous remains. SMR OF010-390---- lies 0.4m to the NW.
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.