Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Structure - peatland
Pallasboy, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Pallasboy
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 53.36947, -7.37861
- SMR number
- WM039-306----
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
Fourteen pieces of brushwood and one roundwood (Wth 1.14m; D 0.35m) which are irregularly laid. The brushwood (diam. 0.01-0.055m) are laid three pieces deep. Woodworking is evidenced by branch-trimming on a single piece. The site is situated in well-humified Sphagnum peat with ericaceous roots and wood fragments.
Date of upload: 16 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.