Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Road - class 3 togher
Derrynagran, County Longford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Derrynagran
- County
- Longford
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.60100, -7.89303
- SMR number
- LF022-158002-
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
Originally recorded as roundwood with occasional brushwood and split timber. Excavation in 2002 revealed short lengths of a togher (total L 8m) extending to the E and W of a platform (LF022-158001-). A date range of 50 BC-AD 130 was obtained (Whitaker 2009, 53).
Compiled by: Mary Tunney based on data supplied by Jane Whitaker, Archaeological Development Services.
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Nearby in the register
- Platform - peatlandunder 1 mi
- Structure - peatlandunder 1 mi
- Platform - peatlandunder 1 mi
- Platform - peatlandunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.