Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Road - class 3 togher
Ballynahownwood, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballynahownwood
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 53.35378, -7.89140
- SMR number
- WM035-034----
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
This site (W 0.98m; D 0.1m) is orientated NNW-SSE and consists of and irregular deposit of predominantly birch brushwood, a plank and three pegs exposed at the centre of a field. Numerous toolmarks are present and a number of ends are cut to chisel and wedge points. It is possible that this site represents the surviving substructural components of a more substantial structure.
Nearby in the register
- Road - class 3 togherunder 1 mi
- Road - class 3 togherunder 1 mi
- Road - class 3 togherunder 1 mi
- Post row - peatlandunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.