Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Road - class 3 togher
Derryoghil, County Longford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Derryoghil
- County
- Longford
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.64992, -7.86172
- SMR number
- LF018-081028-
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 largely obliterated togher (L 4.4m min.; Wth 1m; D 0.07m), noted in 1988, consisted of tightly packed longitudinal brushwood and roundwood, with the latter concentrated at the edges. It was orientated E-W. Radiocarbon dated to 1603-1428 BC (3235±35 BP, GrN-16570) (Raftery 1996, Derryoghil 14, 142).
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
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.