Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Midden
Fanore More, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Fanore More
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.11298, -9.29167
- SMR number
- CL001-019----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Situated on the S side of a small W-facing beach at Trawvealacalaha, c. 0.5m S of the main beach at Fanore. Discovered in 2008 when a band of compacted sea shells (L 7m) and some heat-shattered stone became exposed by high tides during storm weather. Three seasons of excavation followed between 2009 and 2012 (Licence nos. 09E0400, 11E0124). Most of the shells were periwinkle, limpet and dog whelk. Abundant quantities of heat-shattered stone and c. 500 lithics including a stone axe were found in clay deposits to the E, S and W. The presence of shale axe roughouts and shale flakes are indicative of manufacture on site. Radiocarbon dates from the site range from 4453-4321 cal BC to 3980-3796 cal BC. Another midden (CL001-021----) and similar evidence of habitation was found in 2011 c. 280m to the SW. (Lynch 2010; 2011; 2012, 25; 2012a; 2014, 1-10)
Compiled by: Mary Tunney
Date of upload: 3 July 2014
References
Lynch, M. 2012a Preliminary report on the 2012 excavation of the shell midden at Fanore More, Co. Clare. Licence No. 11E0124ext. Unpublished excavation report submitted to the National Monuments Service, Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, Dublin.
Lynch, M. 2010 Preliminary stratigraphic report on the excavation of the shell midden at Fanore More, Co. Clare. Licence No. 09E0400. Unpublished excavation report submitted to the National Monuments Service, Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, Dublin.
Lynch, M. 2011 Preliminary stratigraphic report on the excavation of the shell midden at Fanore More, Co. Clare. Licence No. 11E0124. Unpublished excavation report submitted to the National Monuments Service, Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, Dublin.
Lynch, M. 2014 Prehistoric coastal midden sites in the west. In Higgins, J. Conneely, A. and Gibbons, M. (eds) Irish Maritime Heritage, Proceedings of the 3rd Galway international heritage conference 2013. Galway. Crow's Rock Press.
Lynch, M. 2012 Fanore More. Shell midden. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 2009: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 25 (no. 93). Bray. Wordwell.
Nearby in the register
- Middenunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.