Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Road - unclassified togher
Drehid, County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Drehid
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.34839, -6.87787
- SMR number
- KD008-026----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
Near the W edge of a large expanse of bog. Discovered in 1955 during Bord na Móna drainage operations and investigated by Mr. B O'Riordáin of the NMI, who described the site as 'a timber structure some 5m wide, 0.17m in thickness, 1.6m below the present (shrunken) surface of the bog. It was composed of light branches 'laid crosswise on each other .... but not interwoven in any regular fashion .…(and) in other cuttings inspected some large hewn timbers were observed, one of which measured over 1.05m in length 0.22m in width and 0.08m in thickness' (SMR file; NMI File 1A 21/55)).
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 10 June 2011
Nearby in the register
- Road - unclassified togherunder 1 mi
- Road - gravel/stone trackway - peatlandunder 1 mi
- Road - unclassified togherunder 1 mi
- Structure - peatlandunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.