Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Road - class 2 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
- 53.34609, -7.23557
- SMR number
- OF010-466----
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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 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
- Road - class 3 togherunder 1 mi
- Road - class 2 togherunder 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.