Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Road - class 3 togher
Derries (garrycastle By.), County Offaly, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Derries (garrycastle By.)
- County
- Offaly
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.24821, -7.77384
- SMR number
- OF015-492----
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 (Wth 1.47m; D 0.43m) is a compact but uneven structure of mixed brushwood and roundwoods in opposing drain faces. The wood is orientated N-S, with a few perpendicular fragments on the E side of the drain face. There is also a large trunk and some woodchips set within this material. Wood species include Pyrus/Malus, alder, ash, elm, oak and holly. It is located 1.1m above subsoil within moderately humified Sphagnum peat which contains ericaceous roots and Phragmites. The site has been radiocarbon-dated to 1255-836 cal. BC (Beta 118039). The site is located 4.5m N of SMR OF015-493----.
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.