Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Road - class 3 togher
Ballykilleen (coolestown By.), County Offaly, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballykilleen (coolestown By.)
- County
- Offaly
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.29447, -7.09616
- SMR number
- OF019-020----
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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 4.46m min.; Wth 2.19m; D 0.09m) is orientated NE-SW and consists of roundwoods (diam. 0.065-0.11m), brushwood (diam. 0.015-0.055m), occasional twigs and a single peg. This material is one piece deep and the majority of the elements are laid transversely, 0.04-0.12m apart. One of the roundwoods is longitudinally laid and delimits the E extent of the site. The peg (diam. 0.05m) is set at 45° and appears to be supporting a transverse roundwood near the N extent. The site is in moderately humified Sphagnum peat with a large amount of Eriophorum and unidentified reeds. This site may relate to SMR OF019-021----, c. 50m to the NE, which is similar in composition and orientation.
Compiled by: Irish Archaeological Wetland Unit (University College Dublin).
Date of upload: 23 May 2011
Nearby in the register
- Structure - peatlandunder 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.