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
- 53.29704, -7.09501
- SMR number
- OF019-098----
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 1.6m; Wth 1.01m; D 0.11m) consists of four parallel pieces of mixed brushwood and a roundwood, set 0.01-0.41m apart. An additional underlying piece of brushwood is set perpendicular to these and is situated close to the N edge of the site. The site lies in moderately humified Sphagnum peat with frequent Eriophorum and occasional Menyanthes seeds. This site may be associated with SMR OF019-104----, 12.4m to the SE.
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
- 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.