Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Road - class 3 togher
Curraghmore (garrycastle By.), County Offaly, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Curraghmore (garrycastle By.)
- County
- Offaly
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.28508, -8.01236
- SMR number
- OF013-012016-
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 (Wth 2.1m; D 0.16m) is orientated SE-NW and composed of a large longitudinal birch roundwood (L 1.56; diam. 0.11m) with some transverse brushwood of hazel. Two pegs (L 0.35-1m; diam. 0.035-0.06) are inserted into the peat on either side of the roundwood and toolmarks were noted.
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 3 togherunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.