Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Road - gravel/stone trackway - peatland
Derrybrennan,ballybrack (kilpatrick Ed), County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Derrybrennan,ballybrack (kilpatrick Ed)
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.29955, -6.93897
- SMR number
- KD012-003001-
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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
One of three toghers (see also KD012-002001- and KD012-004001-) converging on Derrybrennan townland, a small 'island' of high ground in the expanse of bog to the N of Lullymore, which were investigated by Rynne (1964-5, 35, 38-40) on behalf of the NMI after their discovery was reported by Bord na Móna. It ran between higher ground in Ballybrack townland to the N and Derrybrennan townland to the S (est. L c. 1400m), and was known locally as 'The Dane's Road'. Rynne could only examine a short portion of the roadway and found that it was constructed of gravel and marl (Wth 3m; T 0.2-0.25m) laid down at depth of 0.5m below the surface of the uncut but shrunken bog surface. On the surface of the bog the line of the buried road was indicated running NE-SW by 'the more luxuriant growth of heath above it'.
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 10 June 2011
Nearby in the register
- Road - class 1 togherunder 1 mi
- Road - class 1 togherunder 1 mi
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- Road - gravel/stone trackway - peatland1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.