Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Structure - peatland
Derryad (eglish By.), County Offaly, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Derryad (eglish By.)
- County
- Offaly
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.18018, -7.82614
- SMR number
- OF030-056----
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
Thirteen pieces of mixed brushwood, laid two pieces deep, and a light roundwood (L 2.9m; Wth 0.29m; D 0.06m) in the drain face. Approximately half the elements are orientated NNE-SSW while the others are orientated NNW-SSE. The wood is widely spaced for the most part but a number of elements to the N are closely spaced and appear to interwoven. One upright element set at 50° angles may be a peg or indicate disturbance. The site is in poorly humified Sphagnum peat with Eriophorum. Recorded by the Irish Archaeological Wetland Unit (University College, Dublin) in 1998. The evidence is not sufficient to warrant its acceptance as the remains of an archaeological monument.
The original survey description was compiled by the Irish Archaeological Wetland Unit (University College, Dublin). Assessed and revised by: Caimin O'Brien, Paul Walsh
Date of upload: 23 May 2011
Nearby in the register
- Road - class 1 togherunder 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.