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
- 53.28195, -7.76220
- SMR number
- OF015-164----
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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 2.38m; D 0.21m) is orientated NW-SE and consists of a collection of brushwood, twigs and roundwoods at the base of the drain. The brushwood (diam. 0.015-0.05m) and is irregularly laid. A large roundwood lies in a NE-SW direction at the edge of the drain base. Above this roundwood, a small concentration of twigs is recorded. Three pieces sitting at angles of 70-90° at the NW end of the site may have functioned as pegs. Woodworking is noted on two pieces. birch and willow are the main wood species identified. The site sits in well-humified woody, Sphagnum peat. It is situated c. 2m SE of SMR OF015-132----, SMR OF015-159---- and SMR OF015-162----.
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
- 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.