Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Structure - peatland
Killavally, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Killavally
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 53.37252, -7.38236
- SMR number
- WM039-053----
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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
A deposit of brushwood on the field surface (Wth 1.31m; D 0.44m). The brushwood (diam. 0.02-0.05m) is loosely deposited. The wood is in moderate condition and the end of one piece has a metal-cut wedge point. The site is set in poorly humified Sphagnum peat with Eriophorum and roots. This is one of a number of possibly related sites forming a line running NW-SE across the bog including SMR WM039-052---- located 15m to the E and SMR WM038-053---- 16m to the W.
Date of upload: 08 August 2013
Nearby in the register
- Structure - peatlandunder 1 mi
- Structure - peatlandunder 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.