Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Road - unclassified togher
Clonsast Upper,garrymona,raheenakeeran, County Offaly, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Clonsast Upper,garrymona,raheenakeeran
- County
- Offaly
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- St Broghans Road
- Coordinates
- 53.21840, -7.15299
- SMR number
- OF027-005----
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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
Known as St Broghan's Road, parts of which were visible in the early 1940's(JRSAI 1945, 56-9). It consisted of brushwood, sand and gravel, was 0.3m wide and ran from close to Clonsast graveyard (OFO27-007----) westwards across the bog to Derriss house (Raheenakearan td.). It has been dated 780AD + 80 (Antiquity 1960, 14; PRIA 1985, 41-4). There is now little o rnothing to be seen of this togher.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Offaly' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload: 23 May 2011
Nearby in the register
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical siteunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.