Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Linear earthwork
Shanvally, County Offaly, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Shanvally
- County
- Offaly
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Ancient Entrenchment
- Coordinates
- 53.23990, -7.57552
- SMR number
- OF024-008----
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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
Linear earthwork that runs for a distance of approx. 400m and which consists of a wide fosse (base Wth 3-4.5m; top Wth 8m; approx. L 400m) which is flanked on either side by an earthen bank (ext. H 1m; int. H 2m; base Wth 8m; top Wth 1.5m). Difficult to examine due to dense overgrowth. The S end of this earthwork abuts onto wet boggy land which may have been impassable at the time. It is possible that the linear earthwork extended further to the N across the road and into the fields to the N although there is no surface remains of any earthwork in this field. A second linear earthwork (OF024-009----) which runs parallel to this linear feature is located to the N.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Offaly' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload: 23 May 2011
Nearby in the register
- Linear earthworkunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Pitunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape - tree-ringunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.