Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Structure - peatland
Pallasboy, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Pallasboy
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 53.36625, -7.38391
- SMR number
- WM039-264----
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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 small amount of dispersed light brushwood on the field surface and a single roundwood in the drain face (L 0.99m; Wth 0.77m; D 0.19m). The pieces are irregularly laid and do not form a coherent structure, one sits in an upright position. The site is located in poorly humified Sphagnum peat containing some Eriophorum and root fibres. This site is 0.16m above SMR WM039-265---- and is adjacent to SMR WM039-263---- to the ESE and SMR WM039-293---- 2.1m to the ESE.
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.