Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Road - class 3 togher
Ballynahownwood, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballynahownwood
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 53.35795, -7.89171
- SMR number
- WM035-033----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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 (Wth 1.7m; D 0.15m) consists of three roundwoods (diam. 0.08m max.) laid in a radial arrangement upon a substructure of brushwood (diam. 0.018-0.042m). Most of the wood is birch and one piece shows evidence of branch trimming.
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.