Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Road - class 2 togher
Annaghbeg, County Longford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Annaghbeg
- County
- Longford
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.66210, -7.90554
- SMR number
- LF018-077010-
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 substantial togher (L 16m min.; Wth 1.8m min.; D 1.5m), found in 1989, 1.5m below the bog surface, consisted of three overlapping panels of woven hazel rods overlain by large roundwood, which damaged the hurdles beneath. The largest panel (L 5.2m; Wth 1.1-1.2m) remained intact and was constructed of twelve or thirteen sails with 84 rods interwoven around them. The togher ended with a small scatter of brushwood and was orientated ESE-WNW. Radiocarbon dated to 2298-2038 BC (3770±40 BP, GrN-18360). (Raftery 1990, AG2, 21-2, 28-9; 1996, Annaghbeg 2, 173-8)
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
References
Adams, B.W. 1881 Antiquarian notes, etc., of the parishes of Santry and Cloghran, Co. Dublin. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 15, 482-98.
Nearby in the register
- Road - class 2 togherunder 1 mi
- Road - class 3 togherunder 1 mi
- Road - class 3 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.