Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Road - class 3 togher
Rathfeston, County Offaly, Ireland
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----
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 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
- Road - class 2 togherunder 1 mi
- Structure - peatlandunder 1 mi
- Road - class 3 togherunder 1 mi
- Structure - peatlandunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.