2000:0627 - LOUGH BANNOW 2, Corlea, Longford

Further investigations in 2000 revealed that this feature could be traced from one peat stockpile to another, across eleven Bord na Móna milled fields for an overall visible distance of 159m. This togher is orientated east-north-east/west-south-west. The excavation showed that the site possessed an upper walking surface, which consisted of a core of closely spaced roundwood and brushwood longitudinals, with longitudinal outliers placed parallel to these central elements. The width of the upper walking surface was 0.4–0.7m. This superstructure rested on transverse, diagonal and longitudinal roundwoods and brushwood. The largest transverse was a curving oak roundwood up to 3.5m in length. A natural tree root was preserved in the peat close to one of the ends of that transverse and at the same level. The wood from the site was very soft and decayed; consequently, no well-preserved worked ends were recovered. The largest of the upper longitudinals was a half-split, roundwood trunk that was hollowed through decay and that may have been in that rotted condition when it was originally put in place.

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