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
- 53.28283, -7.75986
- SMR number
- OF015-242----
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
A band (Wth 1.64m; D 0.25m) of predominantly light brushwood in opposing drain faces. The pieces are irregularly laid. One piece has a metal-cut toolmark. Wood species include willow, birch, oak and alder. The site sits in well-humified Sphagnum peat. It is one of thirteen sites in close proximity in a 30m stretch of this drain and is located 2.8m NW of SMR OF015-243---- and 2.2m SE of SMR OF015-261----.
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.