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Post row - peatland

Ballynakill (Coolestown By.), County Offaly, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Post row - peatland, Ballynakill, County Offaly, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

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----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1799 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (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

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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