Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Structure - peatland
Pallasboy, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Pallasboy
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 53.36678, -7.38517
- SMR number
- WM039-345----
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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
Two overlying roundwoods and two pieces of brushwood (Wth 0.52m; D 0.15m). All of the elements are orientated NW-SE although no structure is discernible. The roundwoods are centrally placed with the brushwood lying 0.04m and 0.23m to either side. The wood is in moderate condition with no woodworking apparent. This material is in well-humified Sphagnum peat with Eriophorum within a small cluster of sites, including SMR WM039-346----, 3m to the NE, SMR WM039-344----below the site and SMR WM039-347---- to the SW.
Date of upload: 22 August 2013
Nearby in the register
- Structure - peatlandunder 1 mi
- Structure - peatlandunder 1 mi
- Road - class 3 togherunder 1 mi
- Road - class 3 togherunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.