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Road - class 3 togher

Togher (Phillipstown Lower By.), County Offaly, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Road - class 3 togher, County Offaly, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Togher (Phillipstown Lower By.)
County
Offaly
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
NULL
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.34577, -7.23532
SMR number
OF010-455----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

A possible hurdle (L 1.05m min.; Wth 0.6m min.; D 0.14m min.) which consists of over twenty-five pieces of brushwood, one/two pieces deep, predominantly orientated NW-SE with four possible transverse elements. The overall orientation of the site is indiscernible. The possible transverses (diam. 0.02-0.05m) are set 0.5m apart. The E part of the site is situated on the field surface and the remainder dips down over 0.16m following what appears to be the curved section of a possible palaeo-channel. The wood is in poor condition and very fragmentary. The possible longitudinals (diam. 0.01-0.03m) are closely set. Chisel points are present on some elements. The E part of the site is set on a solid, compacted peat of moderately humified Sphagnum peat and ericaceous remains with voids occurring in some places between this and the site. Immediately above the site the peat is moderately humified Sphagnum with similar material on the field surface to the W but containing Phragmites and Menyanthes seeds. 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, including SMR OF010-454---- to the S. SMR OF010-456----, 2m to the W, is 0.36m below SMR OF010-455----.

Compiled by: Irish Archaeological Wetland Unit (University College Dublin).

Date of upload: 23 May 2011

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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