County: Westmeath Site name: Killavally, Toar
Sites and Monuments Record No.: n/a Licence number: 14E0279
Author: Jane Whitaker
Site type: Structure - Peatland
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 641164m, N 735984m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.372441, -7.381406
Toar Bog was initially surveyed by the Irish Archaeological Wetland Unit during the 2000 Archaeological Survey of Ireland Peatland Survey. In 2005 and 2006 33 sites were excavated under 25 licences by the author. A re-assessment survey of Toar Bog was carried out in 2013 and subsequently a further 19 sites were proposed for excavation in 2014 as part of the Bord na Móna Mitigation Project in the townlands of Killavally, Pallasboy, Montrath and Rathgarrett.
This site (WM-TOR012) was not re-located during a pre-season field visit in June 2014. The find spot was identified by GPS on 28 August 2014 and an area measuring 3m x 3m was cleaned by hand, however nothing remained in situ. A date of AD 426–608 was returned from a piece of ash roundwood sampled during the 2013 survey at which time the site was described as being composed of north-south brushwood elements exposed on the field surface. The peat was moderately humified sphagnum peat with frequent eriophorum inclusions throughout.
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