Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Road - class 2 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
- 53.29595, -7.09808
- SMR number
- OF019-032----
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 15.23m min.; Wth 1.825m; D 0.26m) orientated N-S andis predominantly comprised of brushwood (diam. 0.014-0.054m) with some roundwoods (diam. 0.063-0.103m) densely packed up to three pieces deep. Most of the wood is laid longitudinally with a small number of overlying transverses. Toward the edges of the structure the heavier elements predominate, with the most substantial roundwoods and brushwood bolstering the E edge. A single peg set at 80° is evident in one location. The site lies in poorly humified Sphagnum peat. Radiocarbon dated to 2116-1745 cal. BC (Wk-11726).
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
- Structure - peatlandunder 1 mi
- Structure - peatlandunder 1 mi
- Road - class 3 togherunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.