Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Road - class 2 togher
Clongawny, County Offaly, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Clongawny
- County
- Offaly
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.17555, -7.92057
- SMR number
- OF030-077----
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 25.24m; Wth 0.63m; D 0.04m) is orientated E-W across the field surface and consists of longitudinally laid brushwood. The wood (diam. 0.02-0.055m) is in fragmented condition has been badly disturbed by machine milling. Some root-like elements are also present in the deposit. Only a single end showed evidence of having been worked to a chisel point. The site is located in moderately humified Sphagnum peat with frequent Eriophorum and occasional ericaceous remains, Menyanthes seeds and a hazelnut shell.
Compiled by: Irish Archaeological Wetland Unit (University College Dublin).
Date of upload: 23 May 2011
Nearby in the register
- Road - class 3 togherunder 1 mi
- Road - class 3 togherunder 1 mi
- Road - class 3 togherunder 1 mi
- Road - class 3 togherunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.