Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Structure - peatland
Timahoe West, County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Timahoe West
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.34017, -6.87480
- SMR number
- KD008-043----
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 is exposed in section in the N face of a turf bank in a Bord na Móna bog. The turf bank is 2.5m high and the site is located 1.4m below the bog surface. It comprises a partially removed and degrading deposit (Wth 0.96m; T 0.09m) of over 15 pieces of light brushwood (max. diams. 0.04m ) and twigs.
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 10 June 2011
Nearby in the register
- Road - class 2 togherunder 1 mi
- Road - class 2 togherunder 1 mi
- Structure - peatlandunder 1 mi
- Structure - peatlandunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.