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Road - class 2 togher

Derrynaskea, County Longford, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Road - class 2 togher, Derrynaskea, County Longford, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Derrynaskea
County
Longford
Country
Ireland
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.63548, -7.87822
SMR number
LF018-084041-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

Excavation of this togher (L 90m min.; Wth 2.1m; D 0.15m) revealed a substructure of longitudinal, half-split oak planks supported on transverse timbers and longitudinal, oak and ash roundwood (av. diam. 0.1m). Pegs of hazel, ash and birch were evident throughout the structure but most were positioned along the edges of the planks. The superstructure consisted of longitudinal, ash and hazel brushwood (diam. 0.04-0.055m), which had clear evidence of coppicing. Dendrochronological dating of several planks yielded a felling date of 974 BC (Q8498). The togher was orientated NW-SE (Moloney et al. 1993, 33-6).

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

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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