What is recorded here
This togher (L 11.5m min.; Wth 0.65m; D 0.1m), noted in 1988, was orientated E-W and consisted of several long straight longitudinal roundwoods of oak and ash (diam. 0.08-0.1m). These were laid on occasional well-spaced transverses of oak secured by pegs. Radiocarbon dated to 2559-2294 BC (3930±40 BP, GrN-16006) (Raftery 1990, 18-19, 63; 1996, Derryoghil 7, 127-9).
Compiled by: Mary Tunney based on data supplied by the former Irish Archaeological Wetland Unit, University College, Dublin.
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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