County: Tipperary Site name: Leigh/Longfordpass South
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 08E0400
Author: Sinclair Turrell, ADS Ltd, 110, Amiens Street, Dublin 1.
Site type: Single-plank trackway
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 623355m, N 658824m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.680070, -7.654608
Four cuttings, each measuring 6m by 3m, were excavated along the length of this site, a single plank trackway which ran across the northern end of the bog for 168m in an east-north-east to west-south-west orientation. It was constructed of longitudinal split oak timbers supported by transverse planks. Some of the longitudinal planks had mortise holes with in situ pegs, while some of the transverse timbers had mortise holes that did not contain pegs. At two locations, supplementary layers of roundwood and brushwood were located below the transverse timbers, to provide extra support in localised wet patches within the bog.
