Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Structure - peatland
Killavally, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Killavally
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 53.36831, -7.38665
- SMR number
- WM039-124----
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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 (Wth 0.96m; D 0.14m) of brushwood in the drain face, concentrated in two small deposits 0.27m apart. Most of the elements are orientated N-S and are up to three pieces deep, but the material is denser on the SW side. The brushwood (diam. 0.02-0.05m) is in moderate condition. It lies in poorly humified Sphagnum peat containing Eriophorum. It is located above SMR WM039-125---- and is 1.48m SW of SMR WM039-126---- within a cluster of sites.
Date of upload: 09 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.