Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Road - unclassified togher
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
- 52.74425, -7.66387
- SMR number
- TN036-050044-
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. This site (Derryfadda 203) consisted of a trackway (L 15m; Wth 3-6.5m) constructed of transverse roundwood and brushwood which was dated to 385-165 BC (Murray and Ó Néill 1999, 41-2).
The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Tipperary. Vol. 1 - North Tipperary' compiled by Jean Farrelly and Caimin O'Brien (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2002). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload/revision: 22 September 2008
Nearby in the register
- Road - unclassified togherunder 1 mi
- Platform - peatlandunder 1 mi
- Road - road/trackwayunder 1 mi
- Platform - peatlandunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.