Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Road - class 1 togher
Lullybeg,lullymore East, County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lullybeg,lullymore East
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not marked
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.26719, -6.95665
- SMR number
- KD012-014----
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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
Three closely associated toghers (KD012-014----, KD012-014001- and KD012-014002-) running parallel to one another were surveyed:
KD012-014----: A substantial gravel and wood togher (L 550m; av. Wth. 4.5m; D 0.10-0.9m) orientated NNE-SSW crosses Lullymore East bog between the dry land islands of Lullymore, to the NE, and Lullybeg, to the SW. The monument is visible in 22 Bord na Mona drain faces and can be traced for most of its length as a raised, vegetation line on the bog's surface. It is composed of a layer of gravel beneath which are large transverse timbers lying on top of smaller longitudinal timbers and beneath these timbers is a layer of possibly re-deposited peat. The monument is dated AD380-660.
The remains of a second togher (KD012-014001-) was found running parallel, immediately to the E, as well as traces of a third togher (KD012-014002-), running parallel to the E again.
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
- Road - gravel/stone trackway - peatlandunder 1 mi
- Road - gravel/stone trackway - peatlandunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.