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Road - class 3 togher

Ballydaly, County Offaly, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Road - class 3 togher, Ballydaly, County Offaly, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Ballydaly
County
Offaly
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
NULL
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.28169, -7.76204
SMR number
OF015-133----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

The site (Wth 2.9m; D 0.39m) is orientated N-S and consists of two distinct layers with the upper layer truncated by the drain. The horizontal components of both layers are predominantly placed longitudinally. The substructure (Wth 2.45m; D 0.14m) is comprised of heavy brushwood four pieces deep. Towards the E end of the exposure numerous pegs (diam. 0.03-0.1m) were recorded, which may have been associated with either layer. The upper horizon (Wth 2.6m; D 0.25m) is composed of a compact layer of mixed brushwood and twigs more than ten pieces deep. There is substantial evidence for woodworking in the form of metal-cut chisel and wedge points. Birch dominates the wood assemblage, followed in importance by willow and lesser amounts of oak, hazel, Pomoideae and ash. It is located in well-humified, woody Sphagnum peat with occasional Menyanthes seeds. This site has been radiocarbon dated to cal. AD 978-1214 (Beta-118040).

Compiled by: Irish Archaeological Wetland Unit (University College Dublin).

Date of upload: 23 May 2011

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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