Road - class 3 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 a NE-SW orientated plank togher, exposed in two sightings on the field surface and in the drain face of two production fields (Whitaker 2014). An excavation was carried out in 2014 (licence 14E0311). The site remains undated.

A single cutting was opened, measuring 5x3m, on the location of Sighting B (OF-DAS051b). The excavations revealed the fragmentary remains of the plank togher, which had been truncated by modern drainage. The site seemed to have originally consisted of two parallel laid radially split oak planks (L0.6-1.05m, W0.1-0.13m, D0.04-0.06m) and an associated longitudinal alder roundwood (Diam. 0.06m, L1.36m). The underlying Sphagnum peat was moderately humified with some fine root inclusions.
The site was no longer extant at Sighting A (OF-DAS051a) (Whitaker 2017).

Compiled by: Jane Whitaker/Femke Vleeshouwer

Date of upload: 26 February 2020

References

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 Unpublished report prepared by IAC Ltd submitted to the National Monuments Service, Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, Dublin.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 Unpublished report prepared by ADS for Bord na Móna.