Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Road - class 2 togher
Kilbeg, County Offaly, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilbeg
- County
- Offaly
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.23135, -7.23953
- SMR number
- OF026-067----
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 74.55m min.; Wth 1.75m; D 0.05m min.) is orientated ESE-WNW. At its WNW extent it consists of two closely laid timbers, one longitudinal (L 1.05m; W 0.175m) and one transverse (L 1.75m; W 0.08m), directly beside which are two pegs. The longitudinal timber is tangentially split while the conversion of the transverse could not be ascertained. The pegs (diam. 0.09-0.11m) have been flattened to angles of 30° max. While both of the timbers are fragmentary and in a poor condition the pegs are well preserved. A further two pegs (diam. 0.05-0.095m) are located c. 8m to the E and are set at angles of up to 10° max. This sighting lies in poor to moderately humified Sphagnum peat with Eriophorum and ericaceous remains. Further sightings survive only as lines of paired pegs (diam. 0.02-0.12m). They are in good condition and wood working is evidenced by metal-cut toolmarks.
Compiled by: Irish Archaeological Wetland Unit (University College Dublin).
Date of upload: 23 May 2011
Nearby in the register
- Structure - peatlandunder 1 mi
- Structure - peatlandunder 1 mi
- Structure - peatlandunder 1 mi
- Structure - peatlandunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.