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
- 53.34331, -7.23748
- SMR number
- OF010-450----
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 4.5m min.; Wth 2.1m; D 0.1m) appears to be orientated NNE-SSW and consists of extensively milled brushwood, one roundwood, twigs and pegs on the field surface. Most of the central portion of the site has been removed by milling with a band of brushwood surviving along each side. The roundwood (diam. 0.085m) and most of the brushwood (diam. 0.011-0.045m) are longitudinally laid. A small amount of twigs are present throughout the site and at least six pegs are evident along the W and E sides. A single worked end cut to a wedge point is evident. Where not machine damaged the wood is in moderate condition and set in well-humified Sphagnum peat with some Eriophorum.
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
- Road - class 2 togherunder 1 mi
- Road - class 3 togherunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.