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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
53.28225, -7.76232
SMR number
OF015-141----

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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 partial remains of a hurdle panel (L 0.56m; Wth 0.48m min.; D 0.1m) orientated ENE-WSW in the drain face. The sails (diam. 0.018-0.032m) were grouped irregularly, with two placed together at the N end of the site, three in the centre and one towards the SE end of the site. The rods (diam. 0.01-0.015m) were confined to the W end of the site which was truncated by the drain. The rods did not extend beyond the outermost sails and were irregularly woven. Four sails had metal-cut chisel points. On the whole, the site appeared to be the fragmentary remnants of a hurdle which had been subject to ancient and recent disturbance. The site lay in poorly humified Sphagnum and Eriophorum peat. It was one of seven sites in close proximity in a 19m long stretch of this drain face, including a leather shoe (92E148:05), recovered 1.38m to the NW, and SMR OF015-167---- 0.25m above the site.

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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