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Road - class 3 togher

Ballybeg (Aghnameadle Par.), County Tipperary North, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Road - class 3 togher, Ballybeg (Aghnameadle Par.), County Tipperary North, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Ballybeg (Aghnameadle Par.)
County
Tipperary North
Country
Ireland
Coordinates
52.62648, -7.71338
SMR number
TN048-057010-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1904 · Sheet 13. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

A peatland survey carried out in 2006 by Archaeological Development Services recorded a togher measuring in ‘width 1.9m, depth 0.15, length 3.1m’ (Whitaker 2006, 34). Described by Whitaker (2006, 34) as this ‘site was visible on the field surface 15m south-southeast of TN-BLG0013. It was composed of two roundwood longitudinal runners with overlying brushwood transverse and longitudinal elements. The site was orientated northwest–southeast and the wood was very fragmented due to prolonged exposure to machine damage. The elements measured between 0.03 and 0.7m in length and 0.04 and 0.1m in diameter. It is possible, given the structural complexity and poor condition of this site, that it was probably more substantial in antiquity. The peat was composed of poorly humified Sphagnum with moderate Calluna and Eriophorum’.

Compiled by: Caimin O’Brien

Date of upload: 20 August 2012

Whitaker, J. 2007 Peatland Survey 2006 Littleton Group of Bogs, Counties Tipperary, Kilkenny and Laois. Unpublished report, DOEHLG, National Monuments Service.

Nearby in the register

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

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