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
- 53.65018, -7.86175
- SMR number
- LF018-081052-
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 7.2m min., Wth 4.9m min., D 0.44m), noted in 1988, was orientated E-W and consisted of tightly packed parallel roundwoods (diam. 0.02-0.05m) and one very large ash plank (surviving L 2.1m, Wth 0.45m, T 0.09m) that was used as a foundation. The plank had a double mortice at its E end. Another togher (LF018-081033-) overlay it, at a right angle to it. Radiocarbon dated to 1680-1451 BC (3275±35 BP, GrN-16623) (Raftery 1996, Derryoghil 19, 145-8).
Compiled by: Mary Tunney based on data supplied by Jane Whitaker, Archaeological Development Services.
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Nearby in the register
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- Road - class 3 togherunder 1 mi
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.