Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Structure - peatland
Pallasboy, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Pallasboy
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 53.36854, -7.38256
- SMR number
- WM039-214----
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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
Five closely set pieces of brushwood and some twigs in the drain face (Wth 0.12m; D 0.1m). The wood is in good condition and branch-trimming is noted on some of the pieces. The site is set in a layer of moderately humified Sphagnum peat with some Eriophorum and ericaceous roots. SMR WM039-356---- is located in the same peat layer 0.15m above this site. SMR WM039-215----, the most S of ten closely situated sites, is located 3m to the NE.
Date of upload: 13 August 2013
Nearby in the register
- Road - class 3 togherunder 1 mi
- Road - class 3 togherunder 1 mi
- Structure - peatlandunder 1 mi
- Structure - peatlandunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.