Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Road - class 3 togher
Ballydaly, County Offaly, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballydaly
- County
- Offaly
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.28182, -7.76174
- SMR number
- OF015-135----
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 (Wth 3.8m; D 0.18m) is orientated NW-SE and consists of a dense horizon of light brushwood, with the majority of pieces arranged longitudinally. The site is up to five pieces deep and is most dense towards the centre. No evidence for woodworking was evident. Alder, including alder root, predominated the wood species identified from this site with birch, oak and Pomoideae also present. The site is located in well-humified, woody, Sphagnum peat. The site sits c. 0.1m above SMR OF015-157----.
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
- Structure - peatlandunder 1 mi
- Structure - peatlandunder 1 mi
- Structure - peatlandunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.