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Road - class 2 togher

Pass of Kilbride, County Westmeath, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 1st edition (1829–1842) covering the location of Road - class 2 togher, Pass of Kilbride, County Westmeath, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 1st edition (1829–1842), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Pass of Kilbride
County
Westmeath
Country
Ireland
Coordinates
53.43886, -7.20442
SMR number
WM034-012----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

The site (L 18.05m min.; Wth 1.9m; D 0.1m) is orientated ENE-WSW and consists of brushwood (diam. 0.01-0.05m) and roundwoods (diam. 0.06-0.09m). The elements are closely laid and run both longitudinally and transversely. Occasional twigs and irregularly laid brushwood are interspersed amongst this material. The wood is in poor condition. A number of metal-cut toolmarks are present. Amongst the wood species identified are birch and alder. This site lies in well-humified Sphagnum peat with a high amount of ericaceous wood fragments. SMR WM034-016---- lies 2.7m N of this site.

Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien

Date of upload: 26 July 2013

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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