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Road - class 3 togher

Lemanaghan, County Offaly, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Road - class 3 togher, Lemanaghan, County Offaly, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Lemanaghan
County
Offaly
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
NULL
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.28392, -7.75720
SMR number
OF015-200----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

The site (Wth 1m; D 0.18m) consists of planks near the bottom of opposing drain faces. In one face, three planks are orientated NE-SW. To the SE in the opposing drain face, two more planks are similarly orientated, one of which is overlain by a third, almost perpendicular timber. To the NW of these timbers, a roundwood and a piece of brushwood, both worked, are recorded. It is possible that multiple layers are represented within the site. The timbers display a variety of conversions and three have been identified as oak. It is situated in moderately humified Sphagnum peat containing Eriophorum and fibrous roots and lies beneath a widespread stratigraphic change to poorly humified peat. It may be linked to SMR OF015-199---- 9.9m to the NW and SMR OF015-198---- c. 60m to the NW, both of which contain similar components and occur at a similar level in the peat. The site has been dendrochronologically dated to AD 594±9 or later (Q9287). An outlying plank at SMR OF015-260----, 29m to the W, has produced a comparable dendrochronological date and may also be related to this site.

Compiled by: Irish Archaeological Wetland Unit (University College Dublin).

Date of upload: 23 May 2011

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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