Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Road - class 3 togher
Kilnagoolny, County Offaly, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilnagoolny
- County
- Offaly
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.30541, -7.77169
- SMR number
- OF007-135----
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 5.062m; Wth 1.1m) is orientated N-S and composed of light brushwood, laid three pieces deep, and two roundwoods and beds of twigs on the field surface The wood is densely packed and the majority of the elements are longitudinally laid. The E and W edges of the site are delimited by the roundwoods and heavier brushwood. Woodworking is evidenced by a number of degraded worked ends. The site is situated in poorly humified Sphagnum peat.
Compiled by: Irish Archaeological Wetland Unit (University College Dublin).
Date of upload: 23 May 2011
Nearby in the register
- Road - class 2 togherunder 1 mi
- Road - class 3 togherunder 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.