Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Road - class 2 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
- 53.27236, -7.25964
- SMR number
- OF018-162----
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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 20.7m min.; Wth 3.4m min.; D 0.1m min.) consists of the substructure of a severely damaged togher of brushwood, roundwoods and pegs on the field surface. Where recorded at the N end, the remains consist of broken, transverse light roundwoods. These overlie dense brushwood (diam. 0.015-0.054m), broken to short fragmentary lengths (L 0.353m max.). There were at least seventeen pegs (L 0.38-0.47m; diam. 0.025-0.045m) present across the width of the site with a higher concentration on the W side. Most of the pegs are set at c. 45° angles with a slight indication of pairing on either side of the site. The uppermost wood is in moderate condition and a number of metal-cut worked ends were noted. At the S end, the site is of similar dimensions but only survives as fragmentary and disturbed brushwood. It is set in moderately humified Sphagnum peat with Eriophorum and ericaceous remains.
Compiled by: Irish Archaeological Wetland Unit (University College Dublin).
Date of upload: 23 May 2011
Nearby in the register
- Road - class 3 togherunder 1 mi
- Structure - peatlandunder 1 mi
- Road - class 3 togherunder 1 mi
- Road - class 3 togherunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.