Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Road - class 2 togher
Cloonbreany, County Longford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cloonbreany
- County
- Longford
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.61342, -7.84902
- SMR number
- LF022-058002-
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 220m; Wth 1.25m; D 0.25m), noted in 1986, consisted of two layers of tightly packed longitudinal brushwood and roundwood between which were transverse roundwoods. The orientation was ENE-WSW. Pegs lined the edge of the togher. Radiocarbon dated to 1366-1052 BC (2970±30 BP, GrN-13666). (Raftery 1990, 18-19; 1996, Corlea 2, 55-60)
Compiled by: Mary Tunney based on data supplied by the former Irish Archaeological Wetland Unit, University College, Dublin.
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
- Road - class 3 togherunder 1 mi
- Road - class 2 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.