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Structure - peatland

Killavally, County Westmeath, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Structure - peatland, Killavally, County Westmeath, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Killavally
County
Westmeath
Country
Ireland
Coordinates
53.36826, -7.38693
SMR number
WM039-030----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

A dispersed collection of irregularly laid brushwood (diam. 0.01-0.04m), ten pieces deep, with two pegs and occasional twigs (Wth 5.39m; D 0.75m). There is a concentration of material in the SW portion of the site, (Wth 1.8m; D 0.6m). The remaining elements most likely constitute outliers from this but a number of pieces may be not be associated. The pegs are set at 75° and are located within the main concentration. One has been worked to a pencil point, the other to a wedge point. A number of brushwood pieces have been worked to pencil and chisel points. Wood species include hazel, willow, birch and oak. The site is situated in moderately humified Sphagnum peat with fibrous roots. SMR WM039-091---- is located 3m to the SW in the opposing drain face.

Date of upload: 06 August 2013

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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