Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Post row - peatland
Ballynakill (coolestown By.), County Offaly, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballynakill (coolestown By.)
- County
- Offaly
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.29979, -7.09738
- SMR number
- OF019-117----
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 9.33m; Wth 0.56m; D 0.44m) is orientated NNE-SSW and consists of seven stakes and three posts. Along the length of the site the elements are set 0.01-4.16m apart. Within this arrangement four of the stakes and a post are clustered together, set 0.02m apart, and two further stakes are set 0.01m apart. The posts (L 0.44m max.; diam. 0.065-0.1m) are set at 10-45° angles while the stakes (L 0.44m max.; diam. 0.02-0.059m) are set at 30-80° angles.
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
- 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.