Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Road - class 1 togher
Cloonbony,mount Davys, County Longford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cloonbony,mount Davys
- County
- Longford
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.68544, -7.96383
- SMR number
- LF017-028----
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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
This togher (L 400m; Wth 2.6m), noted in 1988, comprised two layers of roundwood and split logs (L 2.6m; av. diam. 0.15m), mainly of alder, laid transversely upon roundwood runners (diam. 0.25-0.3m). Pegs (diam. 0.08-0.1m; L 0.4-0.8m) were present at both sides and stone toolmarks were evident on some timbers. The orientation was E-W. At its E end, 150m from dryland, the roadway forked into two diverging lines. Although the excavation took place in Mount Davys townland, the monument is known in the literature as Cloonbony, the name of the bog. Radiocarbon dated to 2620-2471 BC (4035±25 BP, GrN-16874). (Raftery 1990, 11-14; 1996, Cloonbony, 180-94; Casparie and Moloney 1992, 69-88)
Compiled by: Mary Tunney based on data supplied by the former Irish Archaeological Wetland Unit, University College, Dublin.
The attached image was taken by Prof. Barry Raftery and is uploaded courtesy of the Department of Archaeology, University College Dublin.
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Nearby in the register
- Road - gravel/stone trackway - peatlandunder 1 mi
- Road - class 3 togherunder 1 mi
- Road - class 2 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.