Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Structure - peatland
Pallasboy, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Pallasboy
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 53.36673, -7.38521
- SMR number
- WM039-343----
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
An irregular deposit of brushwood in the drain face (Wth 0.8m; D 0.26m). The brushwood (diam. 0.01-0.05m) is laid both horizontally vertically, up to three pieces deep. This material is in a moderate condition and sits in moderately humified Sphagnum peat with some Eriophorum. SMR WM039-344---- is located beneath this site and SMR WM039-342---- and SMR WM039-259---- occur immediately to the SW.
Date of upload: 22 August 2013
Nearby in the register
- Structure - peatlandunder 1 mi
- Road - class 3 togherunder 1 mi
- Structure - peatlandunder 1 mi
- Road - class 3 togherunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.