County: Westmeath Site name: Toar Bog, Killavally
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 06E0510
Author: Jane Whitaker, ADS Ltd, Windsor House, 11 Fairview Strand, Dublin 3.
Site type: Togher (remains)
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 640907m, N 735751m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.370368, -7.385308
This site was one of twenty excavated in Toar Bog, Co. Westmeath, as part of the 2006 Bord na Móna archaeological mitigation programme. Five sites had previously been excavated by the author in 2005 (see No. 2042 above). This site was initially identified during the IAWU 2000 Peatland Survey as the damaged remains of a secondary togher exposed on the field surface (WM-KVY029). At that time the site consisted of widely spaced transverse roundwoods and brushwood lying 0.03–2m apart. Because of a large amount of wood scattered to the north-east along the field surface, the site was excavated in four small trenches to investigate its true orientation and classification. It was discovered that the trackway was oriented north-east/south-west. It was very fragmentary and consisted of longitudinally placed brushwood and roundwoods. It was a maximum of 0.7m in width and was traced for a surviving length of 35m.
