Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Road - class 1 togher
Lurgoe, County Tipperary South, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lurgoe
- County
- Tipperary South
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.59937, -7.73227
- SMR number
- TS054-108----
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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
In Killeen bog, S of Derrynaflan, a dryland island on which a monastery (TS054-002001-; TS054-002002-) is located. This togher (Wth 2.2m-4.9m; D 0.14-0.2m; L 35m) is composed of longitudinal roundwood and heavy brushwood (diam. 0.02-0.2m; L 0.35-3m) which is orientated NE-SW, running towards the E side of Derrynaflan island. During the peatland survey it was visible as three sightings on the field surface across three production fields. This togher survives as regularly laid longitudinal roundwoods that are overlain with gravel along the centre and the eastern end. The western end, where it adjoins the dryland, possibly survives within a marginal tract of unmilled bog. The underlying peat was composed of strongly humified sphagnum-rich peat with moderate phragmites inclusions.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly, based on the original survey description compiled by Jane Whitaker of Archaeological Development Services Ltd.
Date of upload: 07 November 2012
Nearby in the register
- Structure - peatlandunder 1 mi
- Structure - peatlandunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Road - class 1 togherunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.