Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Structure - peatland
Killavally, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Killavally
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 53.36789, -7.38727
- SMR number
- WM039-072----
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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 dense deposit of brushwood (diam. 0.01-0.055m) and twigs with a scatter of brushwood to the N (Wth 3.58m; D 0.52m). Most of the brushwood is parallel and the deposit slopes downward at an angle of 30-45°, with some elements set at right angles. A single peg lies in the densest part of the site. The wood is in good condition and metal-cut toolmarks are recorded. Wood species include hazel, willow, birch, alder, ash, Pomoideae and oak. The wood is set in moderately humified Sphagnum peat with Eriophorum and some ericaceous root. The site is one of a number of similar structures in a 24m length of this drain face, including SMR WM039-073---- and SMR WM039-071---- immediately adjacent to this site to the NE and SW respectively.
Date of upload: 08 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.