Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Road - road/trackway
Ballinvally,gorteen (geashill By.), County Offaly, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballinvally,gorteen (geashill By.)
- County
- Offaly
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Ancient Road
- Coordinates
- 53.20637, -7.48682
- SMR number
- OF025-015001-
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
Present remains consist of a raised roadway (max. Wth 5m; H 0.5m) of stone and gravel material orientated on a NE-SW axis. The road traverses poorly drained low-lying marshy terrain and is a continuation of a laneway which still survives. Described by Stanley (1872-3, 81-2) as a road in part a causeway which took the shortest route from Killeigh to the ford in the river and consisted of a fosse with high banks raised on either side. This description is suggestive of a possible linear earthwork.
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
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Road - gravel/stone trackway - peatland1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.