Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Road - class 3 togher
Derryart, County Longford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Derryart
- County
- Longford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.65400, -7.86463
- SMR number
- LF018-068----
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
This togher (L 3.6m min.; Wth 1.9m min.; D 0.1m), orientated E-W, was noted in 1987 on the surface of the bog. It was composed of loosely arranged brushwood and roundwood of birch and hazel, across which a single oak plank extended. Radiocarbon dated to 376-183 BC (GrN-15485). (Raftery 1996, Derryart, 179)
Compiled by: Mary Tunney based on data supplied by the former Irish Archaeological Wetland Unit, University College, Dublin.
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Nearby in the register
- Road - class 3 togherunder 1 mi
- Road - unclassified togherunder 1 mi
- Road - class 2 togherunder 1 mi
- Platform - peatlandunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.