Corlea Trackway

The Corlea trackway (also Corlea 1) is one of four Iron Age and thus relatively young boardwalks, (Irish to Chorr Liath ) lead in the townland Corlea at Kenagh in County Longford in Ireland on a bog. The Corlea trackway Visitors Centre was built as a museum on site.

The excavated by Barry Raftery of the University Dublin compounds are about a kilometer long, four meters wide and constructed of 15 cm thick oak planks. The Corlea 1 trackway ends after 1000 m on a small island in the bog, before long from a second well boardwalk leads to the other side of the moor. Both were built in the year 147 BC. The means of Belfast chronology ( tree ring chronology ) determined date is the only known way of a plank from the 2nd century BC in Ireland. The purpose of the boardwalks is unknown. The track was only briefly used. Within a decade, she sank into the swamp. A part of the way is to see at a visitors center as reconstruction.

The 1.8 km long with "Sweet Track" in the British Isles is a far older boardwalk that crosses a wetland in the county of Somerset. The logs used were about 3,800 BC like. The North German boardwalks are still partly much older.