Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Road - class 3 togher
Rathdrum, County Offaly, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rathdrum
- County
- Offaly
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.30320, -7.35519
- SMR number
- OF018-075----
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 1.66m; D 0.34m) consists of mixed brushwood, occasional twigs and a split timber, which are densely packed and irregularly laid. The overall orientation of the site is indiscernible but it is up to seven pieces deep. The site is in moderately humified Sphagnum peat. SMR OF010-159---- is 3.4m to the NE.
Compiled by: Irish Archaeological Wetland Unit (University College Dublin).
Date of upload: 23 May 2011
Nearby in the register
- Structure - peatlandunder 1 mi
- Structure - peatlandunder 1 mi
- Structure - peatlandunder 1 mi
- Structure - peatlandunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.