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Road - class 1 togher

Scrub Or Pigeonpark, County Offaly, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Road - class 1 togher, Scrub Or Pigeonpark, 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
Scrub Or Pigeonpark
County
Offaly
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
NULL
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.25993, -7.23749
SMR number
OF018-184----

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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 167.75m min.; Wth 2.8m; D 0.25m) is orientated NNW-SSE. Overall, it consists of longitudinal brushwood (diam. 0.02-0.055m) and roundwoods (diam. 0.061-0.08m) with occasional transverses between the longitudinals. These are densely packed and two to four pieces in depth. Close to the S extent a single transverse piece of brushwood and two pegs, set 0.44m apart are present at one sighting. This sighting lies in moderately humified Sphagnum peat with large amounts of unidentified reeds and occasional woody roots. The most N sighting survives as a single roundwood. Vertical pegs are present at a number of locations, generally along its E side. The site varies in width (Wth 0.76-2.8m) and depth (D 0.14-0.25m) along its length. Woodworking is evidenced by metal-cut chisel and wedge points and by two split timbers at one sighting. Radiocarbon dated to 363-4 cal. BC (Wk-11721).

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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