County: Westmeath Site name: Toar Bog, Pallasboy
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 06E0517
Author: Jane Whitaker, ADS Ltd, Windsor House, 11 Fairview Strand, Dublin 3.
Site type: Possible platform
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 640995m, N 735398m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.367189, -7.384032
This site was one of twenty excavated in Toar Bog, Co. Westmeath, as part of the 2006 Bord na Móna archaeological mitigation programme. Five sites had previously been excavated by the author in 2005 (see No. 2042 above). This site was identified in 2000 as a tertiary togher composed of a substantial deposit of brushwood, a split timber, twigs and pegs exposed in the drain face (WM-PBY067). This site was dated by the IAWU to ad 775–1000. A cutting measuring 2m by 2m was excavated, but sampling during the survey had greatly disturbed the site. The remaining brushwood and roundwood uncovered appeared to represent the remains of a small platform. The site measured 0.5m by 2m and the elements ranged from 0.04m to 0.06m in diameter and 0.39m to 0.71m in length.
