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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
53.36667, -7.38524
SMR number
WM039-260----

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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 4.3m; D 0.56m) is composed of a band of brushwood (diam. 0.015-0.045m), roundwoods (diam. 0.065-0.08m) and occasional twigs. The brushwood and roundwoods occurs in small, dispersed clusters with the majority of elements orientated NW-SE. The twigs occur around and between these clusters. The orientation of the site is not clear. Wood species include birch, willow, hazel, ash and Viburnum. It is located in poorly humified Sphagnum peat containing ericaceous remains and Eriophorum. The site is one of six closely situated sites along an 11m length of this drain, including SMR WM039-342---- 4.2m to the NE and SMR WM039-258---- in the opposing drain face. SMR WM039-366---- is located 2.2m to the SW.

Date of upload: 15 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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