Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Road - class 1 togher
Creggan ((costello By.), County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Creggan ((costello By.)
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.92113, -8.50897
- SMR number
- RO008-016----
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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
On flat bogland which is partly cut-away on the N bank of the W-E Lung river, c. 1km from where it enters Lough Gara Upper. Investigated in 1966 by E. Rynne. A N-S stone and timber structure (L c. 430m), c. 0.6-1.5m below the surface of the bog, led to what must once have been a fording point across the Lung river as it is continued by the wooden togher (RO008-027----) on the S bank. At the S end of this section the construction consisted of a sub-structure of brushwood overlain by tranverse planks (alder) retained by vertical pegs of oak and birch, with a superstructure of two layers of sandstone flags also retained by vertical pegs, forming a narrow walking surface (Wth c. 0.9m). At the N end a stone paving supported by a sub-structure of longditudional roundwoods and planks (Ash) was retained by pegs (alder and oak) above a layer of brushwood. It provided radiocarbon dates of 1398-1217 BC (3050±25 BP; GrN-14730) (Brindley and Lanting 1998, 55). It is no longer visible at ground level, although it may survive in uncut sections of bog. (NMI File; Golden 1992)
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
References
Golden, R. 1992 Two bog trackways in Creggane, Co. Roscommon close to the Lung river. Journal of the Roscommon Historical and Archaeological Society 4, 41-2.
Brindley, A.L. and Lanting, J. 1998 Radiocarbon dating for Irish trackways. Journal of Irish Archaeology, 9, 45-68.
Nearby in the register
- Road - class 1 togherunder 1 mi
- Cistunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.