Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Structure - peatland
Ballykilleen (coolestown By.), County Offaly, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballykilleen (coolestown By.)
- County
- Offaly
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.29894, -7.09392
- SMR number
- OF019-125----
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
This site was located in the industrial peatlands of Cloncreen Bog. It was recorded in the 2013 Peatland Reassessment Survey as a structure, located in the NE extent of the bog, and described to be composed of possibly displaced E-W orientated timber, roundwood, and brushwood, as well as a single N-S orientated brushwood. It was found in moderately humified Sphagnum peat (Whitaker 2014).
The original find spot was relocated by GPS in 2014 (excavation licence: 14E0255), but no in situ remains were visible.
A fragment of ash was chosen for AMS dating and returned a result of cal. 1929-1750 BC (UB 26602).
Compiled by: Jane Whitaker/Femke Vleeshouwer
Date of upload: 25/02/2020
References
Whitaker, J. 2014 Re‐assessment Peatland Survey 2013, Blackwater, Boora, Derrydreenagh, Mountdillon Group of Bogs, County Offaly, Longford, Westmeath and Roscommon. Unpublished report prepared by ADS for Bord na Móna.
Whitaker, J. 2016 Final Report, Cloncreen, Co. Offaly (14E0255). Unpublished report prepared by IAC Ltd submitted to the National Monuments Service, Department of Arts, Heritage, Rural, Regional and Gaeltacht Affairs, Dublin.
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.