Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Structure - peatland
Pallasboy, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Pallasboy
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 53.36734, -7.38363
- SMR number
- WM039-254----
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
A dense deposit of nine pieces of irregularly laid brushwood, two pieces deep, with occasional twigs (L 0.25m min.; Wth 0.37m; D 0.15m). Woodworking is evidenced by a single chisel point. The site is situated in moderately humified Sphagnum peat with ericaceous and fibrous roots. SMR WM039-213----, SMR WM039-252----and SMR WM039-253---- are located within 1m of this site to the SW.
Date of upload: 15 August 2013
Nearby in the register
- Structure - peatlandunder 1 mi
- Structure - peatlandunder 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.