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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
53.36831, -7.38665
SMR number
WM039-125----

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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 deposit (Wth 0.94m; D 0.15m) of six pieces of brushwood in the drain face. The pieces are concentrated on the SW side of the deposit with a single element 0.63m to the NE. The wood is in good condition and lies in moderately humified Sphagnum peat containing Eriophorum and some ericaceous remains. It is located above SMR WM039-124---- and is part of a small cluster of sites which includes SMR WM039-123----, 0.87m to the SW and SMR WM039-128----, 1.8m to the NE.

Date of upload: 09 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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