Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Road - class 3 togher
Cloncreen, County Offaly, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cloncreen
- County
- Offaly
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.27854, -7.11532
- SMR number
- OF019-094----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 5 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 7.2m min.; Wth 1.48m; D 0.08m) is orientated WNW-ESE and consists of regularly laid roundwoods (diam. 0.065-0.12m), brushwood (diam. 0.02-0.05m.), twigs and two split timbers. The elements are densely packed and laid longitudinally. The timbers, roundwoods and heavy brushwood make up the main body of the site, with the lighter brushwood and twigs deposited between and on either side of them. The wood is in poor to moderate condition. It lies in moderately humified Sphagnum peat. Radiocarbon dated to 3695-3380 cal. BC (Wk-11733).
Compiled by: Irish Archaeological Wetland Unit (University College Dublin).
Date of upload: 23 May 2011
Nearby in the register
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Road - class 3 togher1 mi
- Structure - peatland1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.