Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Road - class 1 togher
Beggerin Island,big Island (shelmaliere East By.), County Wexford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Beggerin Island,big Island (shelmaliere East By.)
- County
- Wexford
- Country
- Ireland
- SMR number
- WX038-011----
This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗
The National Monuments Service's description
According to Kinahan (1873, 435) a wooden causeway or togher was found at three points running S from Beggerin Island to Big Island (L c. 850m) during drainage works associated with the reclamation of the N slob of Wexford Harbour in the 1850s. He describes it as two rows of oak piles ‘one foot six inches by 9 inches (dims c. 0.45m x c. 0.2m), the rows are 4 feet (c. 1.2m) apart, with about 5 feet (c. 1.5m) between each pair, but there were no transverse timbers.’ Its course cannot be identified.
Compiled by :Michael Moore
Date of upload: 21 January, 2013
References
Kinahan, G. H. 1873 Proceedings: Remains at Begerin, Co. Wexford, Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 12, 435-6.