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Road - class 1 togher

Kilbeg, County Offaly, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Road - class 1 togher, Kilbeg, 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
Kilbeg
County
Offaly
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
NULL
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.22722, -7.23999
SMR number
OF026-060----

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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 86.62m; Wth 1.2m; D 0.21m) is orientated ENE-WSW. At its centre it consists of eleven longitudinal roundwoods (diam. 0.07-0.2m). The elements are closely set, up to two pieces in depth, with fragments of bark and a wood-chip lying between them. The wood is in a moderate to good condition and there is single metal-cut toolmark present. The site lies in poor to moderately humified Sphagnum peat with Eriophorum. A band of Eriophorum appears to have grown over the surface of the site. The site maintains a consistent structure along its length with occasional brushwood, split timbers and bark fragments also present. Overall the site is in a poor condition due to machine damage and exposure. This site may be associated with SMR OF026-070---- a togher also orientated ENE-WSW located approximately 75m to the SW.

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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