Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Structure - peatland
Killavally, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Killavally
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 53.36963, -7.38625
- SMR number
- WM039-038----
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
Four pieces of brushwood in the drain face (Wth 0.62m; D 0.25m). The brushwood (diam. 0.025-0.04m) is irregularly laid, widely spaced and has no apparent structure. Three of the pieces are situated in poorly humified Sphagnum peat, the fourth piece is situated in the underlying stratum which is composed of moderately humified Sphagnum peat with Eriophorum.
Date of upload: 06 August 2013
Nearby in the register
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.