Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Road - class 3 togher
Ballynahownwood, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballynahownwood
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 53.35476, -7.89379
- SMR number
- WM035-030----
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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 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
- Structure - peatlandunder 1 mi
- Road - class 3 togherunder 1 mi
- Road - class 3 togherunder 1 mi
- Road - class 3 togherunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.