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Road - class 2 togher

Pallasboy, County Westmeath, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Road - class 2 togher, Pallasboy, 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
Pallasboy
County
Westmeath
Country
Ireland
Coordinates
53.36638, -7.38604
SMR number
WM039-180----

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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

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

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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