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Structure - peatland

Pallasboy, County Westmeath, Ireland

The record

Townland
Pallasboy
County
Westmeath
Country
Ireland
Coordinates
53.36695, -7.38193
SMR number
WM039-292----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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 deposit (Wth 0.52m; D 0.06m) of seven pieces of brushwood, one piece deep, and an enigmatic wooden component of tightly packed layers of bark and wood. The deposit is compact and irregularly laid with a number of hazel brushwood pieces penetrating the centre of the bark component. The site is situated in poorly humified Sphagnum peat. SMR WM039-291---- is located c. 4.5m to the E of SMR WM039-292----.

Date of upload: 16 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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