Road - class 1 togher

The National Monuments Service's description

This site was located in the industrial peatlands of Kinnegad Bog. The 2013 survey recorded the sighting as a roundwood aligned N–S and exposed in the drain face. The monument was visible in the opposing drain face where a single longitudinal roundwood was visible. The wood was shredded from milling. Neither sighting was sampled for radiocarbon or wood species analysis (Bermingham 2014).

Excavation in 2015 (licence: 15E0166) revealed that this site in fact is part of a previously unrecorded sighting of Road – Class 1 togher, ME-KRS001, east of the last sighting ME-KRS0001g recorded during the 2013 survey. The roundwood element recorded in the sighting as ME-KRS021 lay immediately along the N extent of the brushwood associated with ME-KRS0001. It was identified as birch, and measured 1.5m in length and 0.06m in diameter. The other elements exposed during excavation consisted of longitudinal split oak planks supported by a large, rough, gnarled transverse timber, with a supporting bed of irregularly-laid brushwood. Two sightings at the eastern extent of this site were excavated in 2007 under licence 07E0496 (Rohan & Corcoran 2009) and subsequently dated to 1540 ± 9 BC. During the 2015 excavation, the site was dated to cal. 1759-1566 BC, UBA-31811 (Whitaker 2017).

Compiled by: David O’Connor, Edited by: Femke Vleeshouwer, 15 April 2020
Date of upload: 21 November 2014

References

Bermingham, N. 2014 Archaeological Survev of Ireland. Peatland Survey 2013: Kinnegad (Rossan), Co. Meath. Final Archaeological Survey Report, August 2014 (Licence number 13E0426). Unpublished report commissioned by the National Monuments Service.

Whitaker, J. 2017 Final Excavation Report, Kinnegad Bog, Co. Meath (15E0160–15E0177). Unpublished report prepared by IAC Ltd submitted to the National Monuments Service, Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, Dublin.

Rohan, N. and Corcoran, E. 2009 Final report on Excavations carried out in Kinnegad Bog, Co Meath and Lullymore East and Gilltown Bogs Co Kildare. Unpublished excavation report submitted to DOEHLG.