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Road - class 1 togher

Corragarrow (Moydow By.), County Longford, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Road - class 1 togher, Corragarrow, County Longford, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Corragarrow (Moydow By.)
County
Longford
Country
Ireland
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.70261, -7.88555
SMR number
LF013-142----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

Originally recorded as a togher (L 135m; Wth 1.4-3.9m; T 0.10-0.60m) extending across nine fields. It was being milled but was evident on the field surface and also in drain faces at a depth of up to 0.85m. A transverse superstructure was composed of large planks (L 2.5m max.), split timbers, roundwood and brushwood. The longitudinal E-W substructure was of roundwood (diam. 0.22m max.), brushwood and split timbers. Some of the brushwood was laid in a random manner and bark was evident in places between the rods of the togher. Numerous pegs (diam. 0.035-0.055m; exposed L 0.45m max.) were visible, some with well-preserved worked ends. A flat stone (L 0.25m max.) was incorporated into the surface of the remains (Dunne 1999, 48, 99BG002A-J). Excavation in 2002 revealed that the togher originated in the Bronze Age (900-905 BC) and that the longitudinal roundwood of the substructure was secured by a line of outer posts (Whitaker 2009, 33).

Compiled by: Mary Tunney based on data supplied by Jane Whitaker, Archaeological Development Services.

Date of upload: 26 August 2011

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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