Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Structure - peatland
Killeen (coolestown By.), County Offaly, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Killeen (coolestown By.)
- County
- Offaly
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.30575, -7.23959
- SMR number
- OF010-478----
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
A dense deposit of mixed brushwood and occasional twigs (Wth 1.71m; D 0.58m). The elements are predominantly orientated N-S and up to two pieces deep. A metal-cut chisel point is present. The wood is in poor condition and sits in poorly humified Sphagnum peat. Recorded by the Irish Archaeological Wetland Unit (University College, Dublin) in 2001.
The original survey description was compiled by the Irish Archaeological Wetland Unit (University College, Dublin). Assessed and revised by: Caimin O'Brien, Paul Walsh. Re-assessed by Margaret Keane.
Date of upload: 23 May 2011
Nearby in the register
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.