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Road - class 3 togher

Clonad (Phillipstown Lower By.), County Offaly, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Road - class 3 togher, Clonad, County Offaly, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Clonad (Phillipstown Lower By.)
County
Offaly
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
NULL
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.26348, -7.29440
SMR number
OF018-101----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

A dense deposit (L 2.1m min.; Wth 2.65m; D 0.06m) of regularly laid brushwood, probably the remains of a hurdle. The site consists of over a hundred pieces of brushwood (diam. 0.015-0.05m) in one central concentration (L 1.8m max.; Wth 1.24m). This central area is very fragmented but is three to four pieces deep. There appears to be at least four possible rods orientated approximately NW-SE with the sails orientated NE-SW. The overall width of the site is extended by an outlying light roundwood on the W edge and some pieces of displaced brushwood on the S side. Two stakes are present on the S side of the deposit. Toolmarks are evident on a number of elements.

Compiled by: Irish Archaeological Wetland Unit (University College Dublin).

This site was recorded by the Irish Archaeological Wetland Unit (UCD) in 2001 as a tertiary togher (Irish Archaeological Wetland Unit (UCD) 2002). It was described as a dense deposit of regularly laid brushwood on the field surface, possibly the remains of a hurdle panel. Unfortunately, when it came to excavating this site under licence no. 04E0728, all that remained was a concentration of woodchips on the field surface; the site no longer existed. As a result, no cutting was excavated for this site.
Reference
Irish Archaeological Wetland Unit (UCD) 2002 Archaeological survey report: Clonad Bog, Co. Offaly. Unpublished report commissioned by Dœchas, the Heritage Service.
Eoin Corcoran, Archaeological Development Services Ltd, Windsor House, 11 Fairview Strand, Dublin 3.

Date of revision: 23 April 2009

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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