1999:740 - CASTLETOWN BOG, Castlearmstrong, Offaly
County: Offaly
Site name: CASTLETOWN BOG, Castlearmstrong
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A
Licence number: 99E0325
Author: Ellen O'Carroll, ADS Ltd.
Author/Organisation Address: Windsor House, 11 Fairview Strand, Fairview, Dublin 3
Site type: Road - class 2 togher
Period/Dating: Undetermined
ITM: E 618037m, N 729184m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.312631, -7.729319
Excavations revealed a large roundwood lying east-west 0.13m in maximum diameter, which narrowed gradually towards its western end. The roundwood was exposed for 1.27m in the cutting but could be traced outside the cutting to measure 1.65m in total length. The roundwood was orientated on an east-west axis, with several small fragments of wood at its eastern end. Several other milled and disturbed pieces of wood could be traced on the same field surface to the north. The track could be traced for 16.46m by the presence of disturbed pieces of wood on the Bord na Móna field surface.
The wood excavated in this cutting represented the remains of a linear brushwood togher. The roundwood may have been a transverse timber placed under the main track. The presence of the milled wood on the Bord na Móna field surface indicates the last remnants of this togher.