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
- 53.30538, -7.77100
- SMR number
- OF007-141----
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 13.629m; Wth 2.08m; D 0.14m) is orientated ENE-WSW and composed of five roundwoods and ten pieces of brushwood, laid two pieces deep, with five vertical pegs at the second of two sightings Both sightings are on the field surface. The roundwoods and brushwood are widely spaced and longitudinally laid. Two pieces of brushwood were cut to chisel points. The site is situated in moderately humified Sphagnum peat with Eriophorum and ericaceous remains.
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 2 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.