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Road - class 3 togher

Pallasboy, County Westmeath, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Road - class 3 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
53.36719, -7.38403
SMR number
WM039-209----

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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 (Wth 1.24m; D 0.49m) is composed of three layers, the upper one of which may represent a separate phase. The lowest layer (Wth 0.88m; D 0.15m) consists of brushwood (diam. 0.036-0.056m), a split timber, twigs and two pegs. The brushwood forms two bundles, 0.46m apart at each side of the site and includes a quarter-split timber. The middle layer (Wth 1.13m; D 0.2m) consists of irregularly laid brushwood (diam. 0.025-0.05m), a high amount of twigs and four pegs. The twigs occur both in beds and scattered throughout the brushwood. The upper layer (Wth 0.68m; D 0.14m) consists of closely set, parallel heavy brushwood, some twigs and a peg. Wood species include alder, willow, hazel, birch, Pomoideae and holly. The wood is in good condition with evidence for woodworking. Radiocarbon dated to cal. AD 775-1000 (UCD-0147). The two lower layers of the site occur in moderately humified Sphagnum peat with Eriophorum, ericaceous roots and a large amount of fibrous roots. The upper layer is set in very similar peat but with less fibrous roots. SMR WM039-208---- is located 3m to the SW.

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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