Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Battery
Incherky, County Offaly, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Incherky
- County
- Offaly
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Keeloge Sod Battery
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.17887, -8.07103
- SMR number
- OF029-001002-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
Earthworks associated with post-1700 AD artillery fortification built in the 19th century for the defence of the River Shannon, these fortifications were constructed between 1803-1804 (Kerrigan 1980, 171-4). Depicted as 'Keeloge Sod Battery' on the 1838 ed. of the OS 6-inch map.
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/revision: 29 December 2011
Nearby in the register
- Batteryunder 1 mi
- Batteryunder 1 mi
- Mill - cornunder 1 mi
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.