Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Road - class 3 togher
Ballynahownwood, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballynahownwood
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 53.35605, -7.89246
- SMR number
- WM035-025----
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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
The site (L 2.4m min.; Wth 1.4m; D 0.25m) is orientated E-W and composed of a compact arrangement of four longitudinal birch roundwoods (diam. 0.092-0.095m) and several pieces of brushwood. A substructure of dispersed brushwood was also evident (av. diam. 0.03m). Toolmarks are present on the roundwoods where branches had been trimmed off and one was worked to a chisel point.
Nearby in the register
- Structure - peatlandunder 1 mi
- Road - class 3 togherunder 1 mi
- Road - gravel/stone trackway - peatlandunder 1 mi
- Structure - peatlandunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.