Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Structure - peatland
Pallasboy, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Pallasboy
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 53.36695, -7.38398
- SMR number
- WM039-250----
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 densely arranged light brushwood and twigs in the drain face (Wth 2.63m; D 0.2m). The wood is concentrated towards the central 1.85m of the site. The brushwood is up to four pieces deep and lies mostly in a N-S direction. The wood is in poor condition and sits in moderately humified Sphagnum and Eriophorum peat with some ericaceous remains. The site is located 1.2m to the NE of SMR WM039-229----.
Date of upload: 15 August 2013
Nearby in the register
- Structure - peatlandunder 1 mi
- Structure - peatlandunder 1 mi
- Road - class 3 togherunder 1 mi
- Structure - peatlandunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.