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Road - class 3 togher

Clonarrow Or Riverlyons, County Offaly, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Road - class 3 togher, Clonarrow Or Riverlyons, 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
Clonarrow Or Riverlyons
County
Offaly
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
NULL
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.27251, -7.26205
SMR number
OF018-155----

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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 8.6m min.; Wth 3.63m; D 0.14m) is orientated NE-SW and composed of transverse roundwoods and brushwood. The roundwoods (diam. 0.1m max.) are regularly laid and closely set with some intermixed brushwood. A number of roundwoods with metal-cut wedge points were noted. The wood is in poor condition and set in poorly humified Sphagnum peat with Eriophorum and fibrous roots. Radiocarbon dated to 391-63 cal. BC (Wk-11722).

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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