Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Road - gravel/stone trackway - peatland
Castletogher, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Castletogher
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.67103, -8.52711
- SMR number
- GA006-136----
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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
17m long exposure of a gravel roadway in a series of peat banks which have been machine cut. This top of the togher is approximately 20cm below the top of the bog.
Nearby in the register
- Battlefieldunder 1 mi
- Road - class 2 togherunder 1 mi
- Road - class 3 togherunder 1 mi
- Road - class 3 togherunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.