Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Structure - peatland
Pallasboy, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Pallasboy
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 53.36652, -7.38616
- SMR number
- WM039-350----
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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 small concentrated deposit (Wth 0.58m; D 0.07m) of fourteen pieces of light brushwood up to two pieces deep. The elements are orientated N-S. The brushwood is in moderate condition. One of the elements has a wedge point and four chisel points were noted. Wood species include ash, birch, Pomoideae and willow. The site is in moderately humified Sphagnum peat with some Eriophorum and ericaceous remains. SMR WM039-349----, SMR WM039-351---- and this site form a cluster 2.5m around the N end of SMR WM039-180----.
Nearby in the register
- Road - class 3 togherunder 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.