Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Structure - peatland
Ballynakill (phillipstown Upper By.), County Offaly, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballynakill (phillipstown Upper By.)
- County
- Offaly
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.26141, -7.25839
- SMR number
- OF018-117----
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
An irregular deposit of two split timbers and two pieces of heavy brushwood on the field surface (L 3.4m min.; Wth 2.65m min.; D 0.08m). One of the timbers (Wth 0.14m; D 0.07m) is half-split and squared at one end. The other (Wth 0.195m; D 0.055m) is tangentially split with the remains of one or possibly two mortices. All the elements are damaged and in a poor condition. This site lies in poorly humified Sphagnum peat with Eriophorum. Recorded by the Irish Archaeological Wetland Unit (University College, Dublin) in 2002. 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
- Road - class 3 togherunder 1 mi
- Structure - peatlandunder 1 mi
- Road - class 3 togherunder 1 mi
- Road - class 3 togherunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.