Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Stone trough
Cumber Lower, County Offaly, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cumber Lower
- County
- Offaly
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.08055, -7.72169
- SMR number
- OF036-054----
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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 stone trough consisting of an oval shaped limestone trough (L 0.9m x B 0.6m x T 0.05m; H 0.35m), the spout or opening at one end has a face carved into the end of the trough (Feehan 1979, 159-62). The trough probably dates from the post-AD 1700 period.
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 23 May 2011
Nearby in the register
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Mass-rockunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.