Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Midden
Fanore Beg,fanore More, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Fanore Beg,fanore More
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- SMR number
- CL001-014----
This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗
The National Monuments Service's description
Listed as ‘Midden’ in the SMR (1992). Knowles (1900, 353) described items found in a small stretch of sandhills at Fanore. Two flint scrapers were found on the surface with a dozen small flint flakes in a black layer. Hammerstones were also found and a broken anvil stone along with several pieces of pottery and lumps of clay. Bones and teeth of red deer, cow and pig as well as shells of limpet, mussel, periwinkle and dog-whelk were also found. The precise location of these finds is unknown. Middens (CL001-019---- and CL001-021----) have been located in the area.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney
Date of upload: 18 November 2020
References
Knowles, W.J. 1901 The fourth report on the prehistoric remains from the sandhills of the coast of Ireland. Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy Ser. 3, VI, 331-89, October 1901.