Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Road - class 3 togher
Pallasboy, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Pallasboy
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 53.36647, -7.38603
- SMR number
- WM039-419----
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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
This site is located in the industrial peatlands of Toar Bog. The sighting was recorded in the 2013 Re-assessment Peatland Survey as a NE–SW orientated, transversely laid roundwood and brushwood togher, exposed on the field surface. It was composed of tightly packed transverse elements (max. L1m, Diam. 0.01-0.11m), several of which had bark present, and most of which were broken along their lengths from machinery passing over it. They were one to two layers deep in places. The site was situated in moderately humified Sphagnum-rich pool peat (Whitaker 2014). A fragment of birch was chosen for AMS dating and returned a result of cal. AD 1411–1456 (UBA 26610).
Compiled by: Jane Whitaker, Femke Vleeshouwer
Date of upload: 03/03/2020
References
Whitaker, J. 2017 Final Excavation Report, Toar, Co. Westmeath (14E0278–14E0296). Unpublished report prepared by IAC Ltd submitted to the National Monuments Service, Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht.
Whitaker, J. 2014 Re‐assessment Peatland Survey 2013, Blackwater, Boora, Derrydreenagh, Mountdillon Group of Bogs, County Offaly, Longford, Westmeath and Roscommon. Unpublished report prepared by ADS for Bord na Móna.
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