Road - togher, Derryoghil, Co. Longford

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Road – togher, Derryoghil, Co. Longford

In the boglands of Derryoghil in County Longford, a stretch of ancient timber trackway survives in the ground, quietly unremarkable to look at yet representing one of the more ingenious responses to the Irish landscape.

A togher is a bog road, a structure laid across waterlogged or unstable terrain to allow people, animals, and goods to pass where the ground would otherwise swallow them. This particular example is a modest but precisely recorded thing: four roundwood timbers laid lengthways, set close together, aligned on a northeast-to-southwest axis, and measuring roughly 0.8 metres wide and 0.2 metres thick.

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