Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Road - class 1 togher
Gilltown (timahoe North Ed), County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Gilltown (timahoe North Ed)
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.33110, -6.80234
- SMR number
- KD009-033----
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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 substantial roundwood and plank togher with occasional marl deposits (L 221.7m NE-SW; Wth. 1.3-4.1m; D 0.2-0.65m) was recorded at eleven locations on a Bord na Mona bog. The monument was recorded low down in the drain faces at its N end and on, or close to, the surface as it traversed the bog in a SW direction. It varied in composition along its length from exposures of single planks to several layers of roundwoods, planks, brushwood and gravel. The togher was dated 1490 to 1200BC.
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 10 June 2011
Nearby in the register
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Road - class 1 togher1 mi
- Enclosure1 mi
- Enclosure - large enclosure1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.