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Road - class 3 togher

Ballynakill (Coolestown By.), County Offaly, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Road - class 3 togher, Ballynakill, County Offaly, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Ballynakill (Coolestown By.)
County
Offaly
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
NULL
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.29887, -7.09709
SMR number
OF019-035----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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)
  • 1799 · 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 2.67m min.; Wth 1.53m; D 0.07m) has an apparent N-S orientation and consists of a hurdle panel supported at its E edge by an underlying piece of longitudinal heavy brushwood. There are three sails (diam. 0.03-0.045m) evident with over forty rods (diam. 0.04-0.025m) tightly woven between them. The panel is secured at the N end by a single ply withe tied around the rods and the end sail. Overall, the structure is tightly woven but there are two gaps in the weave. It lies in poorly humified Sphagnum peat with Eriophorum and ericaceous remains. Radiocarbon dated to 1409-1054 cal. BC (Wk-11727). SMR OF019-034---- and SMR OF019-121---- are 4m and 0.2m to the NE, respectively. SMR OF019-036---- is 4m to the W.

Compiled by: Irish Archaeological Wetland Unit (University College Dublin).

Date of upload: 23 May 2011

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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