County: Westmeath Site name: Toar Bog, Pallasboy
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 06E0520
Author: Jane Whitaker, ADS Ltd, Windsor House, 11 Fairview Strand, Dublin 3.
Site type: Brushwood and roundwood platform
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 640845m, N 735338m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.366662, -7.386293
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 two separate sites, a tertiary togher (WM-PBY108) and a worked wood in situ (WM-PBY187). They were recorded as a regular arrangement of heavy brushwood (108), roundwoods, planks and occasional twigs close to the field surface with a second site (187) comprised predominantly of pieces of brushwood with a small proportion of associated twigs and woodchips, located 2m apart. Two cuttings were initially excavated 1m apart but the diving baulk was later removed, as the sites were discovered to be part of the same platform structure. The platform was composed of roundwood and brushwood elements that were mainly oriented north–south and were two to three elements deep. The platform measured 6m by 3m in size.
