Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Road - class 1 togher
Loughnacush,parsonstown (windmill Cross Ed),timahoe West, County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Loughnacush,parsonstown (windmill Cross Ed),timahoe West
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.33662, -6.88129
- SMR number
- KD008-029001-
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
A wooden trackway crossed Timahoe Bog on an ESE-WNW orientation linking dry ground near Ardnacoolia in Timahoe West townland to the E with dry ground in Loughnacush and Parsonstown townlands to the W (est. L c. 2275m). It intersected a second, oak, trackway (KD008-030----/KD009-018----) mid-way across the bog, which is being harvested by Bord na Mona. Two small sections (L 35m and L 6m) of 'flimsy path made of birch logs' were archaeologically excavated in 1986 (Munroe 1987, 22) and comprised small logs (max. L 2m; diam. 0.1m) laid end to end, in an irregular pattern. Beyond a rough trimming of the ends, there was no evidence of carpentry, nor did the track include any brushwood or thin roundwood. According to the Irish Archaeological Wetland Unit (UCD), the site was radiocarbon dated to 2466-2200 (3864±45bp; GrN14248) (Brindley & Lanting 1998, 47-8).
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 10 June 2011
Nearby in the register
- Road - class 1 togherunder 1 mi
- Road - class 2 togherunder 1 mi
- Structure - peatlandunder 1 mi
- Structure - peatlandunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.