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Road - class 3 togher

Rathfeston, County Offaly, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Road - class 3 togher, Rathfeston, 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
Rathfeston
County
Offaly
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
NULL
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.26327, -7.30441
SMR number
OF018-111----

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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

The site (L 1.6m min.; Wth 0.8m; D 0.3m) is orientated NNW-SSE and constructed of roundwoods (diam. 0.068-0.13m) and heavy brushwood. The wood is predominantly longitudinally laid and is two/three pieces deep. The larger elements are concentrated above the smaller ones forming a substantial walking surface. Woodworking is not evident. The site sits in moderately humified Sphagnum peat. It is 0.75m below the E side of the Late Bronze Age site SMR OF018-016----. The site may be related to SMR OF018-112---- further to the NW, which runs along the same line and has a similar, although slighter, composition.

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

Date of upload: 23 May 2011

Nearby in the register

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

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