Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Road - unclassified togher
Lurgoe, County Tipperary South, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lurgoe
- County
- Tipperary South
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.59499, -7.73959
- SMR number
- TS054-076----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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 connecting the bog island of Derrynaflan to dry land across the bog to the SW of the monastery (TS054-002----). Modern stone surfaced road (L 500m; Wth 3m) now used as laneway into Derrynaflan church (TS054-002002-) located on top of earlier causeway constructed from oak planks visible in places along the side of the modern laneway (NMI file). In the latin 'Lives of St. Ruadhan of Lorrha' there is a story about a causeway traversing the bog between the monastery of Derryvella and the monstery of Derrynaflan (Byrne 1980, 116). According to the story Bishop Columbanus, son of Dar Aine, of Daire Mar, sent Ruadan and his monks a present of a cask of butter in a cart drawn by two oxen, for whom a wide firm path miraculously appeared through the great bog of Lurga which lies between the two churches (ibid.).
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
References
Byrne, F. J. 1980 Derrynavlan: the historical context. In Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 110, 116-26.
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Road - class 3 togherunder 1 mi
- Structure - peatlandunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.