Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Road - gravel/stone trackway - peatland
Knappoge (longford By.), County Longford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Knappoge (longford By.)
- County
- Longford
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.71339, -7.93551
- SMR number
- LF012-003----
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 gravel road (L 600m min.), orientated NNE-SSW, was exposed during peat-milling, c. 1980, 1m below the field surface. A section of it (L 190m; Wth 4m; D 0.2m) was excavated in 1988. It was found to be constructed of large pebbles set in a bed of fine gravel and sand, beneath which was a layer of coarser gravel with oak transverses that gave strength to the foundation. Beneath this again were occasional pockets of worked hazel, birch brushwood and twigs. Radiocarbon dated to AD 669-777 (1284±19 BP, GrN-16875). (Raftery 1996, Knappoge, 194-5)
Compiled by: Mary Tunney based on data supplied by the former Irish Archaeological Wetland Unit, University College, Dublin.
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
References
ACAP - Air Corps Aerial Photographs. Baldonnel. Co. Dublin.
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