Archaeology and monuments in County Offaly
The Discover Alone map has 3,845 archaeology and monuments in County Offaly, Ireland. Below are the 60 with the most written about them, pictures first. Every one has its own page with directions and places nearby.
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Troopers MountMoundTroopers Mount is a flat-topped earthen mound in County Offaly, partially cut through by a modern road on its north…
Town defences in Townparks (phillipstown Lower By.)Town defencesDaingean began as a fortified plantation town called Philipstown, where stone walls and fosses enclosed a linear street…
Town defences in Townparks (ballybrit By.)Town defencesBirr's town defences formed a fortified square and linear wall around the castle, church and market place by 1691, with…
Town defences in Curraghavarna AND Portavrolla,kylebeg OR BanagherTown defencesFort Falkland and a linear earthwork guarded the narrow Shannon crossing where Mac Coghlan, O'Madden and O'Carroll…
ToberneevaHoly wellToberneeva is a holy well on the demesne lands of Castle Armstrong in County Offaly, Ireland. Stone steps lead down to…
ToberlugnaHoly wellToberlugna is a poorly preserved holy well in County Offaly, Ireland, marked only by a dry stone wall facing one side.…
ToberkieranHoly wellToberkieran is a ritual site in County Offaly, Ireland, where two water-filled wells sit side by side beside the…
ToberfineenHoly wellToberfineen is a hidden holy well in County Offaly where tradition claims Gorman, son of St. Patrick, either fasted for…
ToberfinHoly wellToberfin is a natural spring in County Offaly, now hidden inside a modern pump house that supplies local households. It…
Tober PatHoly wellTober Pat is a dry holy well in County Offaly where people kept filling the hole with earth as if denying what the…
ThornRitual site — holy tree/bushThorn stands on flat pasture southeast of Clonsast Church, a white thorn bush marked beside the removed St. Broghan's…The Seven Blessed Wells of KilleighHoly wellSeven wells cluster outside the western ramparts of Killeigh, their margins choked with vegetation and scattered Abbey…
Termon Cross (Site of)Cross — Termon crossKilbride funerals still stop at the Termon Cross site, keeping alive a marker the famine road works buried. The cross…
Templeshenane (Site of), Burial Gd.ChurchTempleshenane was St Senan's Church in County Offaly, marked as a burying ground on the 1838 map before losing every…
StructureStructure — peatlandA piece of hazel brushwood (Wth 0.24m; diam. 0.025m) in the drain face. The site sits in well-humified Sphagnum peat…
StructureStructure — peatlandTwo pieces of brushwood (diam. 0.019-0.05m) in opposing drain faces (Wth 0.3m; D 0.11m). The heavy piece overlies the…
StructureStructure — peatlandMortons Bridge spans the Shannon between Offaly and Tipperary, carrying travellers across one of Ireland’s great…
StructureStructure — peatlandNine pieces of brushwood on the field surface and two pieces in the opposing drain face (L 7.56m; Wth 0.89m; D 0.07m).…
StructureStructure — peatlandA stake (L 1m min.; diam. 0.043m) on the field surface sitting at an angle of c. 90°. It bares a metal-cut chisel…
StructureStructure — peatlandA deposit (L 1.37m min.; Wth 0.28m min.; D 0.05m) of two parallel pieces of brushwood and some twigs on the field…
StructureStructure — peatlandA single piece of brushwood (L 1.1m; diam. 0.043m) on the field surface. It has a metal-cut wedge point and lies in…
StructureStructure — peatlandTwo roundwoods either side of three pieces of light brushwood in the drain face (L 1.35m min.; Wth 0.53m; D 0.1m). One…
StructureStructure — peatlandA deposit of brushwood (diam. 0.01-0.058m), one roundwood (diam. 0.076m) and occasional twigs (L 2.84m; Wth 1.66m; D…
StructureStructure — peatlandEighteen, irregularly deposited, pieces of light brushwood (Wth 1.5m; D 0.3m min.). The elements are in good condition…
StructureStructure — peatlandA single piece of light brushwood (Wth 0.21m; D 0.13m) and a light roundwood. The pieces are in good condition and lie…
StructureStructure — peatlandA single piece of brushwood (L 0.65m min.; diam. 0.05m). The piece is in good condition and is cut to a chisel point.…
StructureStructure — peatlandA piece of brushwood (L 0.55m; diam. 0.03m) with a metal-cut wedge point. It was situated in poorly humified Sphagnum…
StructureStructure — peatlandA vertical stake (L 0.37m; diam. 0.04m) in the drain face. The piece has a metal-cut chisel point and is in a…
StructureStructure — peatlandA stake (L 0.75m; diam. 0.06m) set at an angle of 50° evident in the drain face where it was located 0.42m below the…
StructureStructure — peatlandLocated on the field surface at the drain edge in a Bord Na Móna bog, this site consisted of two staked (length…
StructureStructure — peatlandAn irregular spread (L 1.9m min.; Wth 0.9m min.; D 0.3m min.) of five pieces of brushwood and roundwoods. The material…
StructureStructure — peatlandAn irregular scatter of roundwoods and brushwood on the field surface (L 1.8m min.; Wth 1m min.; D 0.1m). Some of the…
StructureStructure — peatlandA split timber and a piece of light brushwood (L 0.58m min.; Wth 0.32m min.; D 0.15m). The elements are irregularly…
StructureStructure — peatlandOne horizontal and two vertical roundwoods (Wth 0.5m; D 0.18m). One of the vertical roundwoods lies exposed against the…
StructureStructure — peatlandThe site survived as an ash roundwood (L 0.52m; diam. 0.064m) on the field surface close to a drain edge. One end was…
StructureStructure — peatlandA single stake (L 0.6m min.; diam. 0.045m) set at a 10? angle on the field surface. It is in good condition and has a…
StructureStructure — peatlandPossible peatland structure identified by Eoin and Barbara Sullivan in worked peatland bog which was described as…
StructureStructure — peatlandA piece of brushwood (diam. 0.034m) in opposing drain faces. Woodworking is evidenced by a metal-cut chisel point and…
StructureStructure — peatlandA single piece of brushwood (L 0.5m min.; diam. 0.03m) in the drain face situated in poorly humified Sphagnum peat with…
StructureStructure — peatlandA single piece of broken brushwood (L 0.46m; diam. 0.032m) with a worked end. It is set in moderately humified Sphagnum…
StructureStructure — peatlandA single stake (L 0.22m min.; diam. 0.035m) set at 45° on the field surface with a metal-cut chisel point. Recorded by…
StructureStructure — peatlandA roundwood (diam. 0.09m), located in the drain face, with evidence of wood working. It was set within moderately…
StructureStructure — peatlandTwo stakes (Wth 0.33m; D 0.34m) on the field surface. The stakes (diam. 0.039-0.045m) and are 0.25m apart, set at…
StructureStructure — peatlandNo. of Record: 023859 Site name: Unidentified structure Counties: Offaly Record type: Structure Last updated: 23 May…
StructureStructure — peatlandOne roundwood (L 0.55m; diam. 0.065m) cut to a chisel point in the drain face. It is in poorly humified Sphagnum peat…
StructureStructure — peatlandA single roundwood and a piece of light brushwood on the field surface (L 0.38m; Wth 0.26m; D 0.08m min.). The pieces…
StructureStructure — peatlandThree pieces of light brushwood and one roundwood (L 2.32m min.; Wth 1.05m; D 0.051m) in the drain face. The elements…
StructureStructure — peatlandTwo parallel pieces of light brushwood and six fragmented pieces of brushwood (Wth 0.94m; D 0.14m) in the drain face.…
StructureStructure — peatlandA half-split plank (L 0.98m min.; Wth 0.085m) in the drain face. The plank is quite decayed and is in moderately…
StructureStructure — peatlandA sparse deposit (Wth 1.12m; D 0.13m) of three pieces of brushwood and two roundwoods in the drain face. The site is…
StructureStructure — peatlandA roundwood (L 1.83m; diam. 0.063m) cut to a pencil point and with branches removed. Recorded by the Irish…
StructureStructure — peatlandTwo small brushwood pieces, one alder and one apple family, lie angled northeast to southwest inside a County Offaly…
StructureStructure — peatlandA single layer (Wth 0.98m; D 0.35m) of loosely placed pieces of brushwood (diam. 0.01-0.035m). Twigs were evident…
StructureStructure — peatlandNo hall, no hut, no home. A shallow tray of broken wood and gravel, five paces across, three inches deep. Mills may…
StructureStructure — peatlandA large piece of elm brushwood (L 2.5m; diam. 0.059m) on the field surface. The piece has been damaged by machinery and…StructureStructure — peatlandTwo pieces of light brushwood and a stake in the drain face (L 0.93m; Wth 0.18m; D 0.02m). The pieces are dispersed and…
StructureStructure — peatlandA single stake (L 0.51m; diam. 0.045m), in worked to a wedge shaped end. The stake was present within moderately…
StructureStructure — peatlandA single post (L 0.3m; diam. 0.11m) with a chisel shaped end. Recorded by the Irish Archaeological Wetland Unit…
StructureStructure — peatlandA complex (dim. 71m min. E-W x 18.26m min. N-S; D 0.66m min.) of archaeological deposits identified in five drains and…
StructureStructure — peatlandSix light roundwoods (L 2.86m min.; Wth 1.18m; D 0.05m min.) arranged in two groups of three at each end of the…