Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Road - class 2 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
- 53.29856, -7.80162
- SMR number
- OF015-316----
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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
An oak plank walkway (L 29.98m min.; Wth 0.54m; D 0.13m) orientated NNE-SSW. The site was examined at the central and most SW sightings. At the former, the structure survives as a half-split plank (Wth 0.145m) and a piece of light brushwood with an extensively fragmented plank 0.75m to the W. In the opposing drain face, there is a possible peg associated with the plank. This material is set in moderately humified Sphagnum peat with some Eriophorum. The most SW sighting consists of two planks, 0.32m apart, one of which is supported by two possible pegs and the other of which is underlain by two small roundwoods. The brushwood and the roundwoods were identified as alder, holly and willow. The site sits in well-humified Sphagnum peat containing some Phragmites. Dendrochronologically dated to AD 626±9 or later (Q9295).
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
- Structure - peatlandunder 1 mi
- Road - class 3 togherunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.