Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Flat cemetery
Pallasboy, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Pallasboy
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.36451, -7.37881
- SMR number
- WM039-009----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Flat cemetery located on a sandridge that was discovered in 1951. The cemetery consists of three cists containing skeletal remains of which at least two were short rectangular cists (Waddell 1970, 135).
Compiled by: Caimin O’Brien
Date of upload: 02 August 2013
References
Waddell, J. 1970 Irish Bronze Age cists, a survey. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 100, 91-139.
Nearby in the register
- Structure - peatlandunder 1 mi
- Road - class 2 togherunder 1 mi
- Structure - peatlandunder 1 mi
- Structure - peatlandunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.