Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Structure - peatland
Pallasboy, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Pallasboy
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 53.36666, -7.38580
- SMR number
- WM039-332----
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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 loose deposit of irregularly laid light brushwood with some twigs (Wth 1.7m; D 0.32m). The twigs occur throughout the deposit but are particularly located in the centre. Wood species include willow, ash and hazel. The site has been radiocarbon dated to cal. AD 1327-1476 (UCD-0152). The site is located in an area of dense archaeological sites in poorly humified Sphagnum with some ericaceous remains and fibrous roots. SMR WM039-186----and SMR WM039-333---- are adjacent to this site to the NE and SW, respectively, and SMR WM039-202---- is located 0.1m below.
Date of upload: 21 August 2013
Nearby in the register
- Structure - peatlandunder 1 mi
- Road - class 3 togherunder 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.