County: Offaly Site name: BALLYKILLEEN
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 03E0906
Author: Eoin Corcoran, for ADS Ltd.
Site type: Road - class 3 togher
Period/Dating: Undetermined
ITM: E 660274m, N 728002m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.298889, -7.095785
Following a survey in 2002 by the Irish Archaeological Wetland Unit (IAWU) of Cloncreen Bog, a Bord na Móna production bog, a number sites were selected for excavation in the summer of 2003. These sites were identified as two tertiary toghers and worked wood in situ. A single cutting was excavated for each site.
The two toghers appear to be part of the same togher, orientated north-west/south-east. Both cuttings revealed an arrangement of longitudinally laid brushwood.
The worked wood in situ was composed of brushwood elements in no discernible pattern, some of which exhibited toolmarks.
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