Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Road - class 3 togher
Ballynahownwood, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballynahownwood
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 53.35802, -7.89186
- SMR number
- WM035-019----
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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
A substantial brushwood site (L 3m min.; Wth 2.18m; D 0.35m) exposed by peat milling. It consists of a dense arrangement of longitudinal, transverse and irregularly laid brushwood (diam. 0.015-0.038m) with twig packing. Birch was the predominant species noted with hazel also in evidence. The majority of the smaller pieces of brushwood had been broken rather than cut but some toolmarks were present.
Nearby in the register
- Road - class 3 togherunder 1 mi
- Road - gravel/stone trackway - peatlandunder 1 mi
- Road - class 3 togherunder 1 mi
- Structure - peatlandunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.