Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Road - class 2 togher
Pallasboy, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Pallasboy
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 53.36638, -7.38604
- SMR number
- WM039-180----
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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
The site (L 39.983m; Wth 2.8m; D 0.65m) is orientated NW-SE and consists of a dense deposit of brushwood, roundwoods and twigs. The roundwoods (diam. 0.06-0.11m) are concentrated towards the upper part of the site and are orientated in an approximately E-W or NE-SW direction. The underlying layer is composed of irregularly laid, mixed brushwood and twigs, up to seven pieces deep. At one sighting, a squared plank with a scorched underside is recorded. A small number of upright elements are also noted through the site. The wood is in poor condition largely as a result of milling activity. Numerous elements show evidence for woodworking. Wood species hazel, birch, willow and Pomoideae. Radiocarbon dated to cal. AD 981-1186 (UCD-0144). The site is generally located in poorly to moderately humified Sphagnum peat containing Eriophorum and ericaceous remains. SMR WM039-349----, SMR WM039-350---- and SMR WM039-351---- form a cluster adjacent to the N end of this site. The central sighting of this site is 0.18m above SMR WM039-322---- and adjacent to SMR WM039-324---- to the S. SMR WM039-255---- is located 4.2m to the NE of the S end of this site.
Date of upload: 12 August 2013
Nearby in the register
- Structure - peatlandunder 1 mi
- Structure - peatlandunder 1 mi
- Road - class 3 togherunder 1 mi
- Structure - peatlandunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.