Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Road - class 3 togher
Leitra, County Offaly, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Leitra
- County
- Offaly
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.29042, -7.99811
- SMR number
- OF013-013----
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 0.94m; D 0.14m) is orientated E-W and composed if two layers of longitudinal birch roundwoods and hazel and alder brushwood (diam. 0.03-0.07m) on a substructure of brushwood and twigs (diam. 0.003-0.025m). Some of the roundwoods are split and others cut to wedge points.
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 1 togherunder 1 mi
- Structure - peatlandunder 1 mi
- Road - class 3 togherunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.