Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Road - class 1 togher
Scrub Or Pigeonpark, County Offaly, Ireland
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----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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 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
- Road - class 3 togherunder 1 mi
- Road - class 3 togherunder 1 mi
- Road - class 2 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.