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Road - class 2 togher

Lisdermot, County Offaly, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Road - class 2 togher, Lisdermot, 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
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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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

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

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

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