Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Road - class 2 togher
Derrynaskea, County Longford, Ireland
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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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
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
- Road - class 2 togherunder 1 mi
- Road - class 3 togherunder 1 mi
- Road - class 3 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.