Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Road - class 1 togher
Lemanaghan, County Offaly, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lemanaghan
- County
- Offaly
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.29653, -7.73284
- SMR number
- OF015-038----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
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 215.647m; Wth 1.16m; D 0.13m) is orientated NNE-SSW. It consists of varying numbers of longitudinal roundwoods (diam. 0.07-0.132m) with five, widely spaced roundwoods recorded at one sighting. One of the roundwoods is cut to a wedge point and another may have been split. The species include Two roundwoods alder and birch and the site is set in moderately humified Sphagnum peat with Eriophorum.
Compiled by: Irish Archaeological Wetland Unit (University College Dublin).
Date of upload: 23 May 2011
Nearby in the register
- Road - class 1 togherunder 1 mi
- Structure - peatlandunder 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.