TreeAlive
‹ Sites and Monuments Record, Ireland

Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland

Road - class 1 togher

Callow Or Runnawillin, County Roscommon, Ireland

The record

Townland
Callow Or Runnawillin
County
Roscommon
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.91654, -8.51056
SMR number
RO008-027----

Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.

David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Get directions ↗

This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗

The National Monuments Service's description

In cut-away bog on flat, low-lying ground on the S bank of the W-E River Lung, 1.3m below the surface of Callow Bog. Investigated in 1966 by E. Rynne. A NNE-SSW timber road (L c. 100m) leading to what must have been a fording point across the Lung River where it was continued by togher (RO008-016----) on the N bank. One or two logitudinal planks (oak) retained by vertical pegs (oak) formed a narrow walking surface (Wth 0.2-0.4m). Radiocarbon dated to 1433-1316 BC (3115±25 BP; GrN-14729) (Brindley and Lanting 1998, 54-5), it is not now 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

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

Sites and Monuments Record data: National Monuments Service, Government of Ireland, licensed under CC BY 4.0. Record text is reproduced unchanged. National Monuments Service, Government of Ireland · CC BY 4.0
All Road - class 1 togher in Roscommon All County Roscommon records All Ireland Heritage registers Historical markers (US)National Register of Historic Places (US)
See your own family's places on a living map