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Road - class 1 togher

Kellysgrove, County Galway, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Road - class 1 togher, Kellysgrove, County Galway, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Kellysgrove
County
Galway
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.29741, -8.20935
SMR number
GA088-014----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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

In bogland NE of Clontuskert Priory (GA088-001----). Land Commission operations in 1946 brought to light a togher, running in a N-S direction for at least 1.5km, c. 1m below the bog surface (Prendergast 1946, 15-18). A number of trenches cut through the bog revealed that the togher was constructed of 'a double row of parallel [oak] logs in a bed of brushwood on a layer of gravel' (Wth c. 0.7m). These were joined together at each end by vertical pointed hazelwood stakes. Only a very slight grassed-over ridge now marks the line of the togher, most noticeably towards its S limits. It is locally believed to have run from the priory to Pollboy Church (GA088-020001-) to N, suggesting that it may be of medieval date. Egan (1960, 26) refers to the 'monks pass' close to the 'monk's well' and the 'Priest's kish' near S part of the togher: no visible surface trace survives.

The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999).

Date of upload: 05 August 2010

References

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Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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