Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Road - class 3 togher
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
- 53.18115, -7.82250
- SMR number
- OF030-059----
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
A deposit of mixed brushwood, mixed roundwoods and beds of twigs (Wth 1.34m; D 0.25m) in opposing drain faces of a private bog adjacent to the Bord na Móna bog. The wood is densely packed, orientated E-W and is longitudinally laid. It is laid up to four pieces deep. Degraded toolmarks are present on two elements. The site is in well-humified Sphagnum peat with ericaceous remains.
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
- Structure - peatlandunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.