Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Road - unclassified togher
Cooleeny, County Tipperary North, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cooleeny
- County
- Tipperary North
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.74536, -7.67129
- SMR number
- TN036-050034-
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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
Situated on flat bogland with a nearby causeway (TN036-050056) to the N. The site was traced for 160m in length and consisted of longitudinal split planks (avg. dims. L 2.36-2.62m; Wth 0.19-0.28m) secured in places by upright pegs, resting on transverse timbers creating a narrow single file pedestrian route across the wetland. The western, central and eastern sections of the togher were excavated (Murray 1999, Cooleeny 22, 24-5). Dendro-dated to 1526-1508 BC (Ó Néill 2000, 185).
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien.
Date of upload: 22 September 2008
Nearby in the register
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.