Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Road - class 2 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
- 53.29881, -7.09650
- SMR number
- OF019-120----
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 49.4m; Wth 2.64m min.; D 0.1m) is orientated E-W. It is constructed of transversely laid pieces of mixed brushwood and a roundwood, set up to two pieces deep. Within the structure are gaps of up 0.24m between the transverses which are partially filled by pieces of light brushwood. The site lies in poorly humified Sphagnum peat with occasional Eriophorum. At the W limit of the site, its character varies in the size and arrangement of elements. This may indicate separate structures or further structures within this area associated with the complex, SMR OF019-053---- to the S. SMR OF019-123---- is 2.3m to the W and SMR OF019-124---- may partially underlie this site at its W extent.
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
- Structure - peatlandunder 1 mi
- Structure - peatlandunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.