Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Road - class 3 togher
Clonad (phillipstown Lower By.), County Offaly, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Clonad (phillipstown Lower By.)
- County
- Offaly
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.27433, -7.31232
- SMR number
- OF018-098----
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 2.2m min.; Wth 2.33m; D 0.1m) is orientated NE-SW on the field surface and consists predominantly of light brushwood orientated. The brushwood is densely arranged, up to five pieces deep. It mostly lies longitudinally, with two transverse elements 0.4m apart. The longitudinal pieces run above and below the transverses but there is no indication of a consistent weave. The wood is in poor condition as a result of milling. Woodworking is attested by a number of chisel points. The site sits in well-humified Sphagnum peat containing pockets of Eriophorum, with Calluna roots and non-archaeological wood above and below the site.
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
- Road - class 2 togherunder 1 mi
- Structure - peatlandunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.