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Post row - peatland

Clonarrow Or Riverlyons, County Offaly, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Post row - peatland, 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
53.27015, -7.26292
SMR number
OF018-171----

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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 24.86m; Wth 1.5m; D 0.81m min.) is orientated NE-SW and consists of 12 posts and stakes. Two pieces of fragmented horizontal brushwood are also associated with this site. The uprights (L 0.14-0.81m; diam. 0.036-0.08m) are regularly arranged, in general they are 0.3-2.2m apart with a cluster of three, which are closely set. They occur at 45-90° angles. Three of posts are split and multi-faceted metal-cut worked ends were recorded on four other elements.

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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