Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Road - class 3 togher
Togher (phillipstown Lower By.), County Offaly, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Togher (phillipstown Lower By.)
- County
- Offaly
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.34351, -7.23794
- SMR number
- OF010-446----
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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 (Wth 2.3m; D 0.24m) with an apparent E-W orientation consists of two layers of brushwood and roundwoods. The substructure (Wth 2.3m) is composed of dispersed, mainly transverse, brushwood (diam. 0.012-0.056m), roundwoods (diam. 0.061-0.074m) and a small number of pegs. The superstructure (Wth 1.6m) consists of closely-set, longitudinal brushwood (diam. 0.025-0.058m) and roundwoods (diam. 0.07-0.073m). On the S side of the section, the site is up to three elements deep and is less dense on the N side. The wood is in moderate condition and set in well-humified Sphagnum peat with occasional Eriophorum and ericaceous remains. This site and SMR OF010-445----, 4.5m to the W, may have formed part of a larger structure.
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.