Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Road - class 2 togher
Toberdaly, County Offaly, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Toberdaly
- County
- Offaly
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.34599, -7.23213
- SMR number
- OF010-424----
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 37.6m min.; Wth 2.27m; D 0.39m) is orientated N-S and consists of brushwood (diam. 0.012-0.06m) and roundwoods (diam. 0.062-0.1m). The majority of the elements are densely packed and longitudinally laid but composition and scale (Wth 0.98-2.27m) is slightly variable along its length. At the initial sighting the brushwood and roundwoods are densely packed and longitudinally laid, while twigs are deposited as two discrete beds at the center and W extent of the site. There are a small number of irregularly laid pieces, two of which sit outside the main concentration. Woodworking is evidenced by four pieces with metal-cut toolmarks and a split timber at the central sighting. The site is in well-humified Sphagnum peat with Eriophorum and ericaceous remains.
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
- Structure - peatlandunder 1 mi
- Structure - peatlandunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.