Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Road - class 3 togher
Ballynahownwood, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballynahownwood
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 53.35537, -7.89213
- SMR number
- WM035-026----
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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 1.4m min.; Wth 1.3m; D 0.15m) is orientated E-W and consists of several longitudinal roundwoods (av. diam. 0.12) and occasional transverses, enclosing a dump of branches and twigs (av. diam. 0.025). Species present include oak and birch and one half-split oak was recorded. Most of the ends of the pieces are broken and rotted.
Nearby in the register
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.