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Road - unclassified togher

Killaveny, County Wicklow, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Road - unclassified togher, Killaveny, County Wicklow, 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
Killaveny
County
Wicklow
Country
Ireland
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.79503, -6.43322
SMR number
WI038-017----

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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)
  • 1799 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

According to Price (1946, 76) ‘The Togher is now the local name for the house at the cross-roads near the railway bridge between Killaveny and Lugduff townlands. The name evidently originally referred to the road going from east to west across the bog here, which is called ‘Derry Bogg’ on A. R. Nevill’s map’. On the 1st ed. 6-inch OS map there is a house indicated at the cross-roads and c. 130m on the road westward from this house there is a section of the road, c. 130m long, which is indicated by a dashed line. This possibly indicates that this section of road had a different construction and may be where the togher was located. By the 2nd 1907 revision (1909 ed.) a railway line had been constructed, running N-S through this area of boggy marshland, possibly removing any existing togher.

Compiled by: Jean Farrelly

Date of upload: 17 October 2012

References

Price, L. 1946 The place-names of Co. Wicklow. II - The barony of Ballinacor South. The Dublin Institute of Advanced Studies (55-106).

Nearby in the register

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

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