Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Structure - peatland
Pallasboy, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Pallasboy
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 53.36643, -7.38678
- SMR number
- WM039-173----
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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 small deposit of nine regular pieces of light brushwood with some occasional twigs (L 0.8m min.; Wth 0.7m min.; D 0.25m). This material lies generally in a N-S direction. The larger elements lie 0.03-0.15m apart, with twigs extending the limits of the site on the W side. The wood is in moderate condition but has been fragmented by milling. The site set within poorly humified Sphagnum and Eriophorum peat.
Date of upload: 12 August 2013
Nearby in the register
- Structure - peatlandunder 1 mi
- Structure - peatlandunder 1 mi
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.