Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Road - class 3 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
- 53.29803, -7.80140
- SMR number
- OF015-333----
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 1.35m min.; Wth 1.72m; D 0.18m) constructed of brushwood and roundwood, which was uncovered in 1997 during the examination of SMR OF015-325----. The site is composed of thirteen pieces of brushwood (diam. 0.01-0.06m), eight roundwoods (diam. 0.061-0.15m) and occasional twigs, up to two elements deep. The pieces are orientated NNE-SSW and are located in the SE portion of the test trench. A degraded chisel point is present on this material. The site does not appear to continue W beyond this exposure. It is in poorly humified Sphagnum peat containing with occasional ericaceous roots and is 0.22m E of SMR OF015-325----. SMR OF015-346----, SMR OF015-365----, SMR OF015-414----, SMR OF015-446----, SMR OF015-447---- and SMR OF015-448---- are also located near this site.
Compiled by: Irish Archaeological Wetland Unit (University College Dublin).
Date of upload: 23 May 2011
Nearby in the register
- Road - class 2 togherunder 1 mi
- Structure - peatlandunder 1 mi
- Road - class 1 togherunder 1 mi
- Road - class 3 togherunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.