Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Structure - peatland
Ballydaly, County Offaly, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballydaly
- County
- Offaly
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.28172, -7.76129
- SMR number
- OF015-160----
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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 dispersed deposit (Wth 5.2m; D 0.69m) of light brushwood, light roundwoods and a plank in opposing drain faces. The elements do not appear to form a coherent structure but may have been part of a more substantial construction. A chisel point is recorded on one piece. Wood species identified include willow, oak and alder. The site sits in poorly humified Sphagnum and Calluna peat containing small amounts of Phragmites and Eriophorum. It is likely to post-date SMR OF015-151----, dated to AD 624±9 or later (Q9286), which is recorded 7.8m to the SE at a lower level in the peat. Recorded by the Irish Archaeological Wetland Unit (University College, Dublin) in 1996. The evidence is not sufficient to warrant its acceptance as the remains of an archaeological monument.
The original survey description was compiled by the Irish Archaeological Wetland Unit (University College, Dublin). Assessed and revised by: Caimin O'Brien, Paul Walsh
Date of upload: 23 May 2011
Nearby in the register
- Structure - peatlandunder 1 mi
- Road - class 3 togherunder 1 mi
- Road - class 3 togherunder 1 mi
- Structure - peatlandunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.