County: Galway Site name: Kilcrin and Knochaunroe, Castlegar Bog
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 11E0193
Author: Jane Whitaker
Site type: Peatland
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 581792m, N 739342m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.403904, -8.273819
This brushwood and roundwood togher was recorded as GA-CGR001a-al during the course of the 2007 Peatland Survey carried out by ADS Ltd. Five cuttings, each measuring 6m by 4m, were excavated over this togher during the course of the 2011 BnM Mitigation Project at sightings GA-CGR001e, GA-CGR001j, GA-CGR001m, GA-CGR001v-w and GA-CGR001af as identified during the 2007 Peatland Survey.
The site was dated to AD1410-1440 and measured 1.1-3m in width and was visible, on the field surface and in the drain faces, at thirty-seven sightings across the western side of Castlegar Bog for a distance of 615m. It was oriented east-west from the higher ground to the west towards the dryland island at Dalysgrove. It was composed of transversely laid brushwood and roundwood elements supported by brushwood and roundwood longitudinals interspersed with and overlying light brushwood and twigs. Transversely laid planks were recorded at one location. At many of the sightings the upper walking surface had been milled away and all that remained were the damaged elements that form the base of the togher. The transversely laid upper elements were densely laid and, therefore, would have provided a stable walking surface when the togher was in use.
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