Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Structure - peatland
Rathgarrett, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rathgarrett
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 53.36704, -7.36366
- SMR number
- WM039-378----
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 and dispersed deposit of fourteen pieces of brushwood and one roundwood in the drain face (Wth 1.2m; D 0.14m). The brushwood (diam. 0.02-0.05m) is 2-3 pieces deep. The site is situated in moderately humified Sphagnum peat with Eriophorum and ericaceous roots and wood fragments. SMR WM039-379---- is located to the S of this site.
Date of upload: 23 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.