2014:288 - Pallasboy, Toar, Westmeath

NMI Burial Excavation Records

County: Westmeath Site name: Pallasboy, Toar

Sites and Monuments Record No.: n/a Licence number: 14E0288

Author: Jane Whitaker

Site type: Structure - Peatland

Period/Dating:

ITM: E 640973m, N 735300m

Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.366311, -7.384364

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.
WM-TOR046 consisted of four east-west oriented brushwood elements in 2013, associated with the find spot of a recovered wooden stave or vessel fragment. The elements were not re-located during a pre-season field visit in June 2014. The find spot was identified by GPS on 28 August 2014 when an area measuring 3m x 3m around the original sighting was cleaned by hand, however nothing remained in situ. A date of AD 783–989 was returned from a piece of willow brushwood sampled during the 2013 survey.

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