Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Road - unclassified togher
Both Loiscthe Uachtair, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Both Loiscthe Uachtair
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.30179, -9.32144
- SMR number
- GA080-001----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
In blanket bog c. 200m W of Abhainn Both Loischte. A layer of brushwood was uncovered during turf-cutting in the mid-1980s. It was comprised of birch and hazel branches lying c. 1m below the bog surface. A number of pointed stakes were also recovered but no details of orientation or dimensions could be recorded. (Gosling 1988)
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. I - West Galway'. Compiled by Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993).
Date of upload: 05 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.