Road - class 3 togher, Derrynagran, Co. Longford
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Roads & Tracks
In a boggy stretch of County Longford near Derrynagran, there lies a togher, a type of ancient trackway built from timber and other organic materials to allow people and animals to cross otherwise impassable wetland.
Toghers are among the quieter survivals of early Irish landscape engineering, their wooden planks and brushwood foundations preserved for centuries, sometimes millennia, by the anaerobic conditions of the peat. This particular example is classified as a class 3 togher, a designation that reflects its construction method and scale within a broader typology developed through systematic wetland survey work. It runs on a northeast to southwest alignment, which is often enough to suggest it was connecting specific points in the landscape, perhaps settlements, farmland, or routeways on either side of the bog, though in this case no further detail has come to light.