Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Road - class 2 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
- 53.26460, -7.30506
- SMR number
- OF018-112----
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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 93.39m min.; Wth 0.22m; D 0.13m) is orientated NW-SE The site consists of closely set longitudinal roundwoods (diam. 0.08-0.093m) and heavy brushwood. It was identified in opposing drain faces at three sightings, 0.52-0.92m below the field surfaces. These elements are one piece deep and two/three elements wide, forming a narrow walking surface. The wood is in good condition and there is evidence for branch-trimming. It sits in moderately humified Sphagnum peat containing Eriophorum and ericaceous remains. The site may be related to SMR OF018-111---- further to the SE which runs along the same line and has a similar, although more substantial, composition. SMR OF018-111---- is 0.75m below SMR OF018-016----, a Late Bronze Age togher, at one point along its E extent.
Compiled by: Irish Archaeological Wetland Unit (University College Dublin).
Date of upload: 23 May 2011
Nearby in the register
- Structure - peatlandunder 1 mi
- Road - class 3 togherunder 1 mi
- Platform - peatlandunder 1 mi
- Road - class 3 togherunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.