Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Road - unclassified togher
Togher (garrycastle By.), County Offaly, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Togher (garrycastle By.)
- County
- Offaly
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- SMR number
- OF006-073----
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The National Monuments Service's description
Same site as OF007-057---- and which is mentioned in the Annals as Tochar Cinn Mona which O'Donovan locates in the townland of Togher in the parish of lemanaghan. It is mentioned in 11547 when the Lord Lieutenant made an incursion into Delvin 'and burned and plundered the country from Bealach-an-bhothair (Ballaghanoher townland, Co. Offaly] to Tochar-cinn-mona' (Lucas 1985, 49) . Unlocated togher within the townland of Togher in the barony of Garrycastle.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Offaly' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload: 23 May 2011