Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Road - road/trackway
Derryfadda, County Tipperary North, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Derryfadda
- County
- Tipperary North
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.74480, -7.66425
- SMR number
- TN036-050041-
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
Situated on flat bogland. A trackway (L 52m; Wth 3-10.8m) consisting of eight separate deposits of compacted small stones used intermittently where necessary to created a walking surface. In order to extend the life of the road it was supplemented with deposits of small split timbers and wood chips. The site appears to have been constructed after the bog burst of 1250 BC (Murray 1999, Derryfadda 17, 35-7) and has been radiocarbon dated to 1315-980 BC (Ó Néill 2000, 186).
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien.
Date of upload: 22 September 2008
Nearby in the register
- Platform - peatlandunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Platform - peatlandunder 1 mi
- Road - unclassified togherunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.