Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Road - class 2 togher
Barrysbrook,togher (phillipstown Lower By.), County Offaly, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Barrysbrook,togher (phillipstown Lower By.)
- County
- Offaly
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.34633, -7.23583
- SMR number
- OF010-469----
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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 15.16m min.; Wth 2.6m; D 0.06m min.) is orientated NNW-SSE and consists of an irregular deposit of roundwoods, brushwood and twigs. At the S extent, there are eight heavy roundwoods (diam. 0.08-0.13m), predominantly longitudinals, with some irregularly laid brushwood (diam. 0.036-0.04m). Most of the wood is in poor condition and no woodworking is evident. The site lies in moderately humified Sphagnum peat with ericaceous remains. 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 OF010-466---- is to the SE. SMR OF010-467----, 1.17m to the N, is 0.18m above this site and SMR OF010-458----, 3.31m to the N, is 0.23m above it.
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 3 togherunder 1 mi
- Road - class 2 togherunder 1 mi
- Road - class 2 togherunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.