County: Westmeath Site name: Toar Bog, Pallasboy
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 06E0527
Author: Jane Whitaker, ADS Ltd, Windsor House, 11 Fairview Strand, Dublin 3.
Site type: Roundwood and brushwood togher
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 640862m, N 735308m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.366391, -7.386041
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 worked wood in situ and was comprised predominantly of light brushwood with no clear orientation or structure (WM-PBY188). A single cutting measuring 7m by 2m was excavated to encompass the site identified as WM-PBY039b, which was identified during the survey adjacent to WM-PBY188 along the same drain edge. Excavation revealed a single structure that measured 1.86–3.2m in width. It was composed of roundwood and brushwood oriented east–west overlying irregularly laid lighter brushwood elements. This site probably forms part of the north-north-east/south-south-west-oriented transverse roundwood and brushwood togher identified during the 2000 survey as WM-PBY0039b and was not two separate sites.
