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
- 53.29837, -7.09668
- SMR number
- OF019-074----
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 1.84m min.; Wth 2.03m; D 0.05m) is orientated NW-SE on the field surface and consists of a very dense twig bed above which lie closely laid, longitudinal mixed brushwood. The wood is in poor condition with two degraded chisel points present. It lies in moderately humified Sphagnum peat with a large amount of Eriophorum.
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
- Road - class 3 togherunder 1 mi
- Road - class 3 togherunder 1 mi
- Road - class 3 togherunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.