Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Post row - peatland
Carrowkeel,clonfinlough, County Offaly, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carrowkeel,clonfinlough
- County
- Offaly
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.31831, -7.89271
- SMR number
- OF006-079001-
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 (L 2.91m min.; Wth 2.03m; D 0.53m) is orientated SE-NW and composed of a row of fifty-two posts (L 0.10-0.53m; diam.0.068-0.113m) and stakes (diam.0.026-0.055m) with haphazardly spread horizontals elements along the N side of the alignment. The uprights are predominantly hazel with a single oak example and are irregularly spaced (0.03-0.032m) at angles of 30-90°. The horizontal wood is predominantly birch, hazel and oak brushwood in poor condition with a single piece of outer tangential split oak. The uprights are well preserved and the ends cut to wedge and chisel points with distinctive concave facets (Wth 0.055; D 0.0045). One post displayed two different sets of tool signatures indicating the use of more than one tool. This site may be associated with either SMR OF006-079002- or its neighbour SMR OF006-079003- both within a 20m distance of it.
Compiled by: Irish Archaeological Wetland Unit (University College Dublin).
Date of upload: 23 May 2011
Nearby in the register
- Structure - peatlandunder 1 mi
- Post row - peatlandunder 1 mi
- Road - class 3 togherunder 1 mi
- Road - class 3 togherunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.