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
- 53.11112, -9.29450
- SMR number
- CL001-021----
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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 at the edge of a storm beach some 800m S of the main beach at Fanore and c. 280m SW from another shell midden (CL001-019----). Discovered in 2011 during field walking. Deposits of seashells and heat-shattered stone had become eroded during high tides and material had dispersed over a 20m square area. The predominant shellfish were common periwinkle and limpet. Stone axes and roughouts, suggestive of manufacture, and similar to CL001-019---- were also found. A test excavation in August 2012 (Licence no. 12E0095) yielded radiocarbon dates from the Later Mesolithic and c. 900 years earlier than the midden to the N. (Lynch 2012; 2014, 1-10)
Compiled by: Mary Tunney
Date of upload: 3 July 2014
References
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 Preliminary report on the archaeological testing of a shell midden at Fanore More, Co. Clare. Licence No. 12E095. Unpublished excavation report submitted to the National Monuments Service, Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, Dublin.
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Middenunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.