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
- 53.64367, -7.85978
- SMR number
- LF018-082014-
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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 17m min.; Wth 1.5m; D 0.1m), noted in 1987, was orientated E-W and consisted of a brushwood hurdle of hazel and occasional birch (av. diam. 0.035m). It had a simple under-over weave and three remaining sails, each with toolmarks at the ends. Radiocarbon dated to 1109-900 BC (2830±35 BP, GrN-15489) (Raftery 1990, 21, 27-8; 1996, Derryoghil 5, 125-6).
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
- Road - class 2 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.