Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Road - class 3 togher
Aghagoogy, County Offaly, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Aghagoogy
- County
- Offaly
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.18260, -7.82108
- SMR number
- OF030-030----
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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
A hurdle panel (L 3m min.; Wth 2.7m; D 0.07m) orientated NW-SE in the peat face of a private bog adjacent to the Bord na Móna bog. The hurdle consists of approximately sixty rods (diam. 0.01-0.027m) with a possible double sail (diam. 0.02m-0.035m) construction. It is in well-humified Sphagnum peat with Eriophorum and ericaceous remains. The site was radiocarbon dated to 1367-825 cal. BC (UCD-9952).
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 3 togherunder 1 mi
- Structure - peatlandunder 1 mi
- Road - class 3 togherunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.