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
- 53.61320, -7.84865
- SMR number
- LF022-058005-
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
A togher (L 240m min.; Wth 0.3m; D 0.16m), noted in 1987, consisting of longitudinal thin oak planks laid end to end (orientated NW-SE) and supported by short transverse timbers. In some places the planks were stabilised by very small stakes placed through drilled holes. Dendrochronological date AD 587±9 (Q6696). (Raftery 1990, 47; 1996, Corlea 5, 65-71)
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.