Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Structure - peatland
Pallasboy, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Pallasboy
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 53.36639, -7.38576
- SMR number
- WM039-243----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
An area of light brushwood and twigs (L 1.64m; Wth 0.88m min.; D 0.22m). The brushwood is largely orientated in an E-W direction. The twigs occur in beds towards the upper part of the site. A number of pieces bear metal-cut chisel points. The site sits in moderately humified Sphagnum peat containing Eriophorum. A leather shoe (92E148:80) was recovered 0.3m from the SW end of the site. SMR WM039-203---- is 2m NE of this site and SMR WM039-256----is located 0.9m to the SW.
Date of upload: 14 August 2013
Nearby in the register
- Structure - peatlandunder 1 mi
- Structure - peatlandunder 1 mi
- Structure - peatlandunder 1 mi
- Road - class 3 togherunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.