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
- 53.29880, -7.09677
- SMR number
- OF019-123----
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 0.9m min.; Wth 1.39m; D 0.13m) is orientated N-S and composed of over fifty longitudinally laid pieces of brushwood The brushwood (diam. 0.02-0.06m) is densely laid and up to three pieces deep. The wood is in good condition, although it has been fragmented into short lengths and milled where exposed on the field surface. This site is in moderately humified Sphagnum peat with frequent Eriophorum. This site may extend to the S, where the complex SMR OF019-053---- is located. It may also be associated with SMR OF019-120---- 2.3m to the E, SMR OF019-124---- 8.5m to the W and SMR OF019-059---- 11m 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
- Road - class 3 togherunder 1 mi
- Road - class 2 togherunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.