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Road - class 3 togher

Ballynahownwood, County Westmeath, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Road - class 3 togher, Ballynahownwood, County Westmeath, 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
Ballynahownwood
County
Westmeath
Country
Ireland
Coordinates
53.35476, -7.89379
SMR number
WM035-030----

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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)
  • 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · 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

A narrow walkway (L 3.14m min.; Wth 0.46m; D 0.15m) composed of a longitudinal roundwood (L 1.9m; diam. 0.09m) of trimmed birch and an oak plank overlying a quantity of brushwood, twigs and occasional transverse roundwoods. Two radially-split and trimmed oak roundwoods with degraded edges were used as pegs. The plank (L 1.42m; Wth 0.06-0.13m; D 0.15m) had a rectangular hourglass mortice (L 0.06m; Wth 0.04m) cut at one end. The substructural wood was predominantly of ash or birch (diam. 0.03-0.07m). The overall condition of the wood was poor. This site may be related to SMR WM035-031----, 20m to the NW.

Nearby in the register

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

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