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, -7.09384
- SMR number
- OF019-108----
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 3.58m min.; Wth 4.09m; D 0.12m) is orientated N-S on the field surface It is composed of over twenty pieces of brushwood (diam. 0.017-0.058m), roundwoods (diam. 0.075-0.127m) and a plank (Wth 0.28m) with the elements longitudinally and very closely laid. The wood is in mixed condition with some signs of rot. This site is set in moderately humified Sphagnum peat with occasional Eriophorum. SMR OF019-118---- and SMR OF019-041---- are within 5m of this site.
Compiled by: Irish Archaeological Wetland Unit (University College Dublin).
Date of upload: 23 May 2011
Nearby in the register
- Structure - peatlandunder 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.