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Road - class 2 togher

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

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Road - class 2 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
53.34609, -7.23557
SMR number
OF010-466----

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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

The site (L 16.03m min.; Wth 1.74m; D 0.29m) is orientated NNW-SSE and consists of a substantial construction of brushwood and roundwoods. At the NW extent, the site is composed of longitudinally laid brushwood (diam. 0.02-0.05m) and roundwoods (diam. 0.06-0.09m) with twigs and a vertical peg. The elements are in a moderate condition. Occasional twigs occur throughout and there is a small bed of twigs at the N end of the exposure. Some of the uppermost material has been damaged by milling and is more degraded. A single degraded toolmark is evident. This site is in moderately humified Sphagnum peat with occasional ericaceous remains and some fibrous roots. 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 OF010-469---- to the NW and SMR OF010-457---- to the S.

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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