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
- 53.26136, -7.25808
- SMR number
- OF018-121----
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
The site (L 3.94m; Wth 1.08m; D 0.155m) consists of light brushwood and roundwoods orientated E-W on the field surface The elements are longitudinally and densely laid, one piece in depth. The wood is in a good condition with chisel points present. It lies in moderately humified Sphagnum peat with ericaceous remains. This site has been radiocarbon dated to 2308-1983 cal. BC (Wk-11719).
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.