Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Road - class 3 togher
Clonarrow Or Riverlyons, County Offaly, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Clonarrow Or Riverlyons
- County
- Offaly
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.27791, -7.26170
- SMR number
- OF018-140----
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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 28.19m; Wth 1.62m min.; D 0.09m min.) is orientated ESE-WSW. At its E end it consists of over fifty pieces of mixed brushwood, transversely and irregularly laid, three to four pieces in depth. The transverses (diam. 0.03-0.042m) are closely set and parallel. One underlying element is set longitudinally with lighter brushwood irregularly laid to the S. Many of these lighter elements are displaced and in semi-upright positions. The wood is in quite poor condition with some pieces partially milled and very fragmented. Two fragments of a leather shoe (02E0839:1a-b) were recovered from the site. A further fragment of leather (02E0839:2) was recovered 3.1m to the N. A number of toolmarks were noted and the site lies in homogenous, moderately humified Sphagnum peat with frequent fibrous roots and occasional Eriophorum. This site has been radiocarbon dated to cal. AD 1402-1480 (Wk-11715).
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
- Structure - peatlandunder 1 mi
- Structure - peatlandunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.