2008:1145 - LONGFORDPASS SOUTH, Tipperary

Three cuttings, each measuring 5m by 4m, were laid out along the length of this roundwood and brushwood trackway, together with eight small slot-trenches. This trackway measured 100m in length and was orientated north-west to south-east. In Cutting 1, at the north-eastern end of the site, the site consisted of widely dispersed roundwood and brushwood and was up to 2.4m wide. In Cutting 2 the site was 4.6m wide and composed of roughly trimmed transverse roundwood and brushwood above a layer of longitudinal wood. Cutting 3 contained only a few broken and degraded scraps of wood. Wood samples taken during the 2006 survey were identified as alnus (alder), corylus (hazel), quercus (oak) and fraxinus (ash). A radiocarbon date of AD 130 to AD 420 was also obtained.