County: Tipperary Site name: Longfordpass South
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 08E0404
Author: Sinclair Turrell, ADS Ltd, 110, Amiens Street, Dublin 1.
Site type: Wooden trackway
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 623465m, N 659205m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.683497, -7.652954
Excavation of two cuttings, each measuring 5m by 4m, revealed the remains of a substantial corduroy-type wooden trackway running across the northern end of Littleton Bog for 91m in a north-west to south-east direction. It ranged from 3.6m to 4m in width and was constructed from transversely laid roundwoods, split timbers, planks and brushwood, pegged into place along each side of the site and underlain by two parallel longitudinal runners. Samples taken in 2006 indicated that the wood species included quercus (oak) and salix/populus (willow/poplar).
