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
- 53.29871, -7.09673
- SMR number
- OF019-059----
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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 1.17m min.; Wth 1.64m; D 0.06m) is orientated E-W and consists of densely laid brushwood, twigs and a notched roundwood artefact (02E0941:5). The majority of the brushwood and twigs are longitudinally laid with occasional irregular elements. This site lies in moderately humified Sphagnum peat with Eriophorum. This site has been radiocarbon dated to 1745-1517 cal. BC (Wk-11730). SMR OF019-053----, lies 3.3m W of this site and the two may be associated.
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
- Road - class 3 togherunder 1 mi
- Road - class 2 togherunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.