Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Structure - peatland
Pallasboy, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Pallasboy
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 53.36797, -7.38510
- SMR number
- WM039-157----
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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 roundwoods and brushwood (L 2.4m min.; Wth 2.4m; D 0.4m). In the drain face, the elements have a general NNE-SSW orientation and are set two rods deep, 0.2-0.6m apart. On the field surface, at the extremities of the site, the elements are irregularly laid. The site sits in poorly humified Sphagnum peat with fibrous roots. It is located 1.2m to the NE of SMR WM039-156----.
Date of upload: 12 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.