Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Road - class 3 togher
Baunmore (galmoy By.), County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Baunmore (galmoy By.)
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.74118, -7.62767
- SMR number
- KK008-182----
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 togher (Wth 1m; D 0.12m; L unknown), orientated E-W, consisting of tightly packed, parallel roundwood (diam. 0.15-0.25m) with an underlying longitudinal roundwood exposed in a drain face 0.4m below the field surface. The elements were dated to 420-380BC. (Whitaker 2007)
Compiled by: Mary Tunney based on data supplied by Jane Whitaker, Archaeological Development Services
Date of upload: 26 November 2012
References
Whitaker, J. 2007 Peatland Survey 2006 Littleton Group of Bogs, Counties Tipperary, Kilkenny and Laois. Unpublished report, DOEHLG, National Monuments Service.
Nearby in the register
- Structure - peatlandunder 1 mi
- Platform - peatlandunder 1 mi
- Road - class 3 togherunder 1 mi
- Road - class 3 togherunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.