Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Road - class 3 togher
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
- 53.26126, -7.25799
- SMR number
- OF018-119----
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
The site (L 3.83m min.; Wth 1.04m; D 0.05m) is orientated NW-SE and consists of densely packed, longitudinal mixed brushwood laid two pieces deep. Where exposed, the site has suffered extensive machine damage. Many of the elements are broken and displaced, however, there is an undisturbed portion to the NW where the site is well preserved. Three metal-cut chisel points were noted. The site is set in poorly to moderately humified Sphagnum peat with a large amount of Eriophorum and some unidentified reeds.
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
- Structure - peatlandunder 1 mi
- Structure - peatlandunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.