Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Road - class 1 togher
Lisdermot, County Offaly, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lisdermot
- County
- Offaly
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.29791, -7.80118
- SMR number
- OF015-279----
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 (L 205.05m; Wth 0.95m; D 0.22m) is orientated NE-SW and consists of a dispersed spread of brushwood and roundwoods. At the NE end of the site, the structure is evident as three pieces of heavy brushwood (diam. 0.047-0.068m), identified as willow and alder. At an adjacent sighting it is denser and consists of three roundwoods and over thirty pieces of brushwood, orientated N-S. On the E side, this material is delimited by two parallel, heavy roundwoods and on the W side, by a band (Wth 0.5m) of overlapping pieces of brushwood, 2-3 rods deep. This material is Sphagnum and Eriophorum peat. The site shares the same orientation as the gravel trackway SMR OF015-464---- which extends for 245m beyond the most N sighting. However, both sites are very different in form and construction.
Compiled by: Irish Archaeological Wetland Unit (University College Dublin).
Date of upload: 23 May 2011
Nearby in the register
- Road - class 3 togherunder 1 mi
- Structure - peatlandunder 1 mi
- Road - class 2 togherunder 1 mi
- Road - class 2 togherunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.