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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
53.36679, -7.38644
SMR number
WM039-185----

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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 40.677m; Wth 2.5m; D 0.24m) is orientated NW-SE and composed of brushwood, roundwoods and twigs. The brushwood (diam. 0.012-0.047m) up to eight pieces deep and is mostly irregularly laid. In some locations it is both longitudinally and transversely laid, 3-4 pieces deep. Roundwoods and twigs are dispersed among the brushwood. A number of light brushwood uprights are also noted scattered throughout the site. The wood is frequently forked and branch-like and shows evidence for tearing and splitting. Numerous pieces also attest woodworking with a metal tool and are predominantly cut to chisel points. Wood species include hazel, willow, ash, birch and alder. The site crosses a number of peat types, but lies mainly on a moderately to well-humified Sphagnum peat with pockets of fibrous roots and Eriophorum. It tends to be overlain by a poorly humified Sphagnum peat. SMR WM039-247---- is located 1.7m to the NE of the S end of this site.

Date of upload: 13 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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