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
- 53.22771, -7.24239
- SMR number
- OF026-074----
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 30m min.; Wth 3.49m; D 0.04m) is orientated ENE-WSW. At the ENE extent it consists of over sixty pieces of transverse light brushwood laid up to three pieces in depth on the field surface. Longitudinal light brushwood and pegs set at 75-90° bound the edges of the site. The wood is very fragmentary due to machine damage and exposure and it lies in poorly humified Sphagnum peat with ericaceous remains. At the WSW extent the site consists of nine widely spaced longitudinal pieces of brushwood c. 0.4m below the field surface in the drain face and is in good condition.
Compiled by: Irish Archaeological Wetland Unit (University College Dublin).
Date of upload: 23 May 2011
Nearby in the register
- Structure - peatlandunder 1 mi
- Road - class 1 togherunder 1 mi
- Road - class 2 togherunder 1 mi
- Structure - peatlandunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.