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Road - class 3 togher

Derryoghil, County Longford, Ireland

The record

Townland
Derryoghil
County
Longford
Country
Ireland
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.64375, -7.85925
SMR number
LF018-082011-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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 11m min.; Wth 1.6m; D 0.15m), noted in 1987, was oriented E-W and consisted of a superstructure of longitudinal small brushwood (av. diam. 0.08m; av. L 1.8m) on a substructure of transverse rods and larger roundwood (av. diam 0.15m; av. L 3m). Short pegs (av. diam. 0.11m; av. L 0.45m) were used in its construction. The evidence for worked wood was extremely good. Presuming the togher crossed the bog, its original length would have been c. 650m. Radiocarbon dated to 1286-1000 BC (2925±40 BP, GrN-16559) (Raftery 1990, 63; 1996, Derryoghil 2, 115-20).

Compiled by: Mary Tunney based on data supplied by the former Irish Archaeological Wetland Unit, 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.

Aalen, F.H.A. and Whelan, K. (eds) 1992 Dublin City and County: from prehistory to present. Dublin. Geography Publications.

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