Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Road - class 3 togher
Baltigeer, County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Baltigeer
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.43644, -7.17460
- SMR number
- ME046-020----
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
In Derrynich bog. A tertiary togher (ME0BLR 002/DHH 0019a) orientated NW-SE on the field surface. The site consists of over twenty pieces of light brushwood and four pieces of heavy brushwood. It is possible that this material is the remains of a hurdle panel of double sail construction. The light brushwood is very closely set and laid longitudinally. Running transverse to these are two pairs of heavier brushwood set 0.26m apart. Two longitudinally laid pieces of light roundwoods bound this material on each side. The wood is in poor condition and there is a single metal-cut toolmark present. Ten pieces were identified as Corylus. This site lies in well-humified Sphagnum peat with Eriophorum.
Nearby in the register
- Structure - peatlandunder 1 mi
- Road - class 3 togherunder 1 mi
- Structure - peatlandunder 1 mi
- Structure - peatlandunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.