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
- 53.28315, -7.76032
- SMR number
- OF015-207----
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 6.7m min.; D 0.26m min.) consists of an extensive deposit of light brushwood, roundwoods and twigs towards the bottom of the drain face and in the drain base. In the drain base, the wood is concentrated towards the centre of the site and consists of compactly laid brushwood orientated N-S. A small number of pieces lie at right angles to these. To either side of this area, the brushwood is more dispersed. Towards the E extent of the site, however, a smaller concentration of twigs and light brushwood is recorded. Woodworking is attested by numerous metal-cut toolmarks. Wood species are dominated by willow, with ash and alder also recorded. The site is situated in poorly humified Sphagnum peat.
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
- Structure - peatlandunder 1 mi
- Structure - peatlandunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.