Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Road - class 2 togher
Derryoghil, County Longford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Derryoghil
- County
- Longford
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.64505, -7.86065
- SMR number
- LF018-082009-
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 30m min.; Wth 0.55m; D 0.1m), noted in 1988, was orientated E-W and was composed of longitudinal roundwood of birch, ash and oak placed end to end, with up to four laid parallel. The togher was recognized in two other fields and probably extended from the dry land to the E to that to the W. Radiocarbon dating revealed a date range of 1684-1440 BC (3280±45 BP, GrN-16564) (Raftery 1990, 19; 1996, Derryoghil 8, 129-30). When inspected in 1999 (Dunne) it was visible in the headland section face, which was much higher than the adjacent milled surface. A superstructure of roundwood (diam. 0.10-0.13m) overlay densely packed brushwood (diam. 0.02-0.025m).
Compiled by: Mary Tunney based on data supplied by the former Irish Archaeological Wetland Unit, University College, Dublin, and the Archaeological Development Services.
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
Nearby in the register
- Platform - peatlandunder 1 mi
- Platform - peatlandunder 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.