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
- 53.28225, -7.76232
- SMR number
- OF015-141----
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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 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
- Structure - peatlandunder 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.