Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Road - class 1 togher
Derrynabuntale,gorteenclareen, County Longford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Derrynabuntale,gorteenclareen
- County
- Longford
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.56219, -7.83626
- SMR number
- LF026-034----
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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 420m; Wth 0.06-3.88m), orientated ENE-WSW, was visible in a drain face and on the bog surface at 25 sightings across the SE portion of Edera Bog. It ran on a similar orientation and to the S of a trackway (LF026-033----), the two separating further as they extended to the SW. The composition of the togher varied along its length but it included longitudinally laid planks, roundwood and brushwood that were both underlain and overlain by transversely laid planks, roundwood and brushwood. Some pegs were recorded. At many of the sightings there was no observable structure. Radiocarbon dating revealed a date range of AD 540-620. (Rohan 2009, 116-19, LF-EDR002-)
Compiled by: Mary Tunney based on data supplied by Jane Whitaker, Archaeological Development Services.
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Nearby in the register
- Road - gravel/stone trackway - peatlandunder 1 mi
- Road - class 1 togherunder 1 mi
- Road - class 1 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.