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
- 53.29616, -7.09454
- SMR number
- OF019-026----
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 1.19m min.; Wth 0.68m; D 0.08m) is orientated N-S. It consists of densely packed brushwood (diam. 0.015-0.036m) one to two pieces deep. The bulk of the wood is laid longitudinally but there are two apparent transverses set c. 0.4m apart, which overlie these. The site is in moderately to well-humified Sphagnum peat with Eriophorum and ericaceous remains. It is possible that this site is the remnants of a hurdle panel but damage due to milling and desiccation have destroyed any evidence of a weave. There is a single piece of heavy brushwood (L 0.29m) 0.36m to the N which is orientated N-S. SMR OF019-025---- is 1.3m to the E and SMR OF019-027---- is 3.2m to the W.
Compiled by: Irish Archaeological Wetland Unit (University College Dublin).
Date of upload: 23 May 2011
Nearby in the register
- Structure - peatlandunder 1 mi
- Structure - peatlandunder 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.