County: Kilkenny Site name: TEMPLETOUHY BOG, Ballypatrick/Derrylaughta/Derryville/Tullowmacjames
Sites and Monuments Record No.: 22177 16865 Licence number: 06E0704
Author: Jane Whitaker, ADS Ltd.
Site type: Road - road/trackway
Period/Dating: Bronze Age (2200 BC-801 BC)
ITM: E 647849m, N 624416m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.369222, -7.297360
This bog was surveyed as part of the 2006 Peatland Survey which was concentrated in Bord na Móna’s Littleton group of bogs. Templetouhy Bog is located 2km east of Templetouhy village and measures 742ha in size. It straddles counties Kilkenny, Laois and Tipperary. Two plank trackway sites were recorded in the northern extent of the bog, which were dated to 1190–820 bc and 1033 bc69.
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