Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Road - class 1 togher
Ards,derryoghil, County Longford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ards,derryoghil
- County
- Longford
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.64360, -7.85736
- SMR number
- LF018-082008-
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 togher (L 650m; Wth 2.5m; D 0.4m), orientated NE-SW, composed of a superstructure of transverse planks and split stems. The planks had morticed ends but usually no pegs. The substructure was of longitudinal logs, brushwood and reused or discarded planks, some of which were morticed. Dendrochronologically dated to 938±9 BC (Q7465). During the survey only one definite sighting survived. When inspected in 1999 (Dunne) one of the planks was found to measure 1.42m by 0.28, while one of the roundwoods measured 2.45m by 0.18m. (Raftery 1990, 22-5, 37; 1996, Derryoghil 1, 107-15)
Compiled by: Mary Tunney based on data supplied by the former Irish Archaeological Wetland Unit, University College, Dublin, and the Archaeological Development Services.
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Nearby in the register
- Road - class 3 togherunder 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.