Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Structure - peatland
Barrysbrook, County Offaly, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Barrysbrook
- County
- Offaly
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.34769, -7.23390
- SMR number
- OF010-410----
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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
A dispersed, irregular deposit (L 7.7m min.; Wth 2.21m; D 0.11m min.) of brushwood (diam. 0.02-0.036m), roundwoods (diam. 0.065-0.09m) and twigs on adjacent field surfaces. Metal tool marks are evident on one piece of brushwood. The wood is machine damaged and desiccated and set in poorly humified Sphagnum peat with some ericaceous remains. This is one of a number of sites running along the line of a possible palaeo-channel orientated in a N direction across the bog, which includes SMR OF010-383----, 11m to the N, and SMR OF010-385----, 23m to the S. Recorded by the Irish Archaeological Wetland Unit (University College, Dublin) in 2001. The evidence is not sufficient to warrant its acceptance as the remains of an archaeological monument.
The original survey description was compiled by the Irish Archaeological Wetland Unit (University College, Dublin). Assessed and revised by: Caimin O'Brien, Paul Walsh
Date of upload: 23 May 2011
Nearby in the register
- Structure - peatlandunder 1 mi
- Structure - peatlandunder 1 mi
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.