Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Structure - peatland
Pallasboy, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Pallasboy
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 53.36798, -7.38483
- SMR number
- WM039-159----
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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
An irregular deposit of four pieces of brushwood and a roundwood on the field surface (L 1.36m min.; Wth 0.87m min.; diam. 0.09m). The brushwood (diam. 0.015-0.03m) is approximately parallel and the roundwood is located 0.42m to their W. The site is located in moderately humified Sphagnum peat with some Eriophorum, ericaceous remains and fibrous roots.
Compiled by: Irish Archaeological Wetland Unit, UCD.
Date of upload: 12 August 2013
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.