Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Road - class 3 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
- 53.29582, -7.72567
- SMR number
- OF015-064----
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 1.65m; D 0.3m min.) is orientated approximately E-W and composed of roundwoods and brushwood in opposing drain faces. The initial sighting consists of a densely packed deposit of light brushwood. There are more than fifty pieces, laid 5-6 pieces deep. The majority of the pieces are longitudinally laid with a small number of transverse elements. Two roundwoods are visible in the opposing drain face. Woodworking is evidenced by a metal-cut pencil point on one piece and chop-and-tear marks on another. Two pieces have been identified as alder. The site lies in moderately humified Sphagnum peat. The site was radiocarbon dated to cal. AD 1433-1947 (Beta-118028).
Compiled by: Irish Archaeological Wetland Unit (University College Dublin).
Date of upload: 23 May 2011
Nearby in the register
- Structure - peatlandunder 1 mi
- Structure - peatlandunder 1 mi
- Road - class 3 togherunder 1 mi
- Structure - peatlandunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.