Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Road - class 1 togher
Islands (galmoy By.), County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Islands (galmoy By.)
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.73020, -7.62116
- SMR number
- KK012-081----
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 (L 712m; Wth 1.39m; D 0.26m), orientated E-W, constructed of planks, roundwood and brushwood, and varies in composition along its length. Discovered by Irish Archaeological Wetland Unit (UCD) in 1995 during a pilot survey of the Littleton Works. This togher continues into Tipperary where it is recorded as TS036-050----.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 2 July 2019
Nearby in the register
- Road - class 3 togherunder 1 mi
- Road - class 1 togherunder 1 mi
- Road - class 1 togherunder 1 mi
- Road - class 1 togherunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.