County: Longford Site name: LOUGH BANNOW 2, Corlea
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 00E0453
Author: Noel Dunne, ADS Ltd.
Site type: Road - class 3 togher
Period/Dating: Undetermined
ITM: E 609838m, N 763396m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.620297, -7.851284
This east–west togher is evident on the Bord na Móna milled surface and in a drain section face for a minimum distance of 10m. Excavation showed that its upper walking surface consisted of loosely laid, longitudinal light brushwood, with roundwoods placed along the edges. Its original width was 1.6–1.75m. The longitudinal elements had dipped and sagged over the lifetime of the togher into the softer patches in the underlying bog, and their shapes had moulded to the contours of the substructure elements. The latter consisted of transverse, diagonal and longitudinal roundwoods and brushwood, which in turn rested on diagonal and longitudinal light brushwood. Pegs were used to contain the edges of the togher and the substructure transverses. Their tips were not worked or pointed, and all the pegs showed signs of buckling from having been hammered into the drier tufts of the bog surface. The transverse runners were further held in position by being placed beside a natural tree root.
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