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
- 52.74248, -7.67143
- SMR number
- TN036-050035-
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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 orientated on a NW-SE axis across Cooleeny Bog connecting one glacial ridge to another. A substantial and complex togher which was constructed in four phases. The first phase was represented by a layer of brushwood creating a routeway (Wth 8m) which in phase two was demarcated by a triple row of upright pegs. A layer of sand and brushwood represented phase three which was succeeded by a layer of transverse planks and roundwood creating a routeway measuring 4.5m wide at its narrowest point (Cross 1999, Cooleeny 31, 26-8).
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien.
Date of upload: 22 September 2008
Nearby in the register
- Platform - peatlandunder 1 mi
- Platform - peatlandunder 1 mi
- Platform - peatlandunder 1 mi
- Platform - peatlandunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.