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, -7.09692
- SMR number
- OF019-124----
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 2.46m; Wth 1.64m; D 0.15m) is orientated NNW-SSE and has a walking surface (Wth c. 1.06m) constructed of longitudinally laid, densely packed brushwood (diam. 0.01-0.05m), up to three pieces deep. There are three transverse pieces of brushwood, 0.46-0.48m apart. The elements of the site are interwoven, up to three pieces deep. They are in good condition with 80% of the bark present. Radiocarbon dated to 1875-1439 cal. BC (Wk-11736). Located 0.3m W of the site there is a roundwood and ten pieces of brushwood, all irregularly laid, which may be associated with the complex SMR OF019-053----. Furthermore, two stratigraphically distinct overlying pieces of brushwood may be associated with the W extent of SMR OF019-120----. SMR OF019-123----, 8.5m to the E may also be associated with 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
- Road - class 3 togherunder 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.