County: Westmeath Site name: Toar Bog, Pallasboy
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 06E0521
Author: Jane Whitaker, ADS Ltd, Windsor House, 11 Fairview Strand, Dublin 3.
Site type: Archaeological wood
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 641320m, N 735392m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.367110, -7.379151
This site was one of twenty excavated in Toar Bog, Co. Westmeath, as part of the 2006 Bord na Móna (BnM) 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 unworked wood in situ (WM-PBY110), a single piece of brushwood protruding from the drain face in a north–south direction. The wood was located in an area of pool peat and this pool was contained within the 2m by 1.5m cutting. The peat was very poorly decomposed sphagnum peat within which were two brushwood elements. The brushwood measured 0.4m and 0.79m in length and both were 0.03m in diameter. These elements had no apparent function and may have been dropped in the pool or have formed part of a structure that no longer remained in situ owing to the cutting of the BnM drain.
