Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Burnt spread
Ballychristal, County Offaly, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballychristal
- County
- Offaly
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.23197, -7.29946
- SMR number
- OF026-098----
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
In tillage field, 300m E of Lough Banagher. Feature identified by Séamus Ó Murchú in the course of an archaeological desk based assessment of a forestry felling licence application. Visible as a dark soil mark (dims. c. 38m E-W x 24m N-S) on aerial imagery available on the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine iFORIS system. Elongated dark spread visible on Digital Globe orthoimages taken 2011-13.
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details provided by Séamus Ó Murchú
Date of upload: 27 August 2021
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.