Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Road - class 2 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
- 53.30530, -7.77156
- SMR number
- OF007-140----
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 18.18m; Wth 2.4m; D 0.1m) is orientated E-W on the field surface The site has been extensively damaged by milling. It consists of over fifty pieces of brushwood and three roundwoods, laid 2-3 pieces deep, with over ten pegs set between 80-90°. Occasional twigs are also present. The roundwoods were longitudinally laid but the brushwood was irregular and devoid of any structural definition. Degraded toolmarks were evident on a number of elements. An ash artefact (92E148:42), worked on all sides was recovered. A second ash artefact (92E148:41) was also located c. 0.5m SW.
Amongst the wood species identified were birch, hazel, alder, ash and Prunus avium/padus. The site is situated in moderately humified Sphagnum peat with Eriophorum, ericaceous remains and a small amount of Phragmites. The site was radiocarbon dated to cal. AD 1414-1631 (Beta 118038). The site is located approximately 3m S of SMR OF007-139----.
Compiled by: Irish Archaeological Wetland Unit (University College Dublin).
Date of upload: 23 May 2011
Nearby in the register
- Road - class 3 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.