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
- 53.24818, -7.77390
- SMR number
- OF015-493----
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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 1.48m; D 0.27m) consists of brushwood and three roundwoods in opposing drain faces. The lighter brushwood is located on the W side of the deposit with some heavier pieces and roundwoods on the E side. A single toolmark was recorded. Wood species include alder, Pyrus/Malus, oak, ash, holly and hazel. The site is located 0.86m above subsoil in moderately humified Phragmites peat containing unidentified roots and natural wood above the site. The site is located 4.5m S of SMR OF015-492----.
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.