Road - class 2 togher

The National Monuments Service's description

This site is located in the industrial peatlands of Daingean South Bog. It was first recorded in the 2013 Reassessment Peatland Survey as two field surface sightings (OF-DAS008a and b) traced over a length of 16m, each containing a pair of longitudinal planks (Whitaker 2014). On excavation in 2014 (licence 14E0302) it was revealed to be a plank togher. The site was dated to cal. AD 538-650 (UBA 26593).

Sighting A was located on a stockpile field where nothing remained in situ. One cutting was opened at Sighting B, measuring 6 x 3m. It consisted on two oak planks laid end to end, orientated NW-SE (Wth 28-0.36m, L .83 - .92m). Both planks were in poor condition: soft with fibrous roots throughout the wood. They both contained well-defined but poorly preserved mortice holes at their N ends. One inner tangential split and a secondary radial split were noted. Ring counts recorded on site were over 60 years. The site was overlain and underlain by moderately humified Sphagnum peat (Whitaker 2017).

Compiled by: Jane Whitaker/Femke Vleeshouwer

Date of upload: 26 February 2020

References

Whitaker, J. and Turrell, S. 2005 Excavations carried out in Daingean South Bog. Unpublished report prepared by ADS for Bord na Móna.

Whitaker, J. 2017 Final Excavation Report, Daingean South, Co. Offaly (14E0300-14E0311). Unpublished report prepared by IAC Ltd submitted to the National Monuments Service, Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, Dublin.

Whitaker, J. 2014 Re‐assessment Peatland Survey 2013, Blackwater, Boora, Derrydreenagh, Mountdillon Group of Bogs, County Offaly, Longford, Westmeath and Roscommon. Unpublished report prepared by ADS for Bord na Móna.