Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Midden
Ballintubbrid West, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballintubbrid West
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Shell Mound (1933)
- Coordinates
- 51.88400, -8.22209
- SMR number
- CO076-013----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
On E Side of Brown Island, in estuary to N of Great Island. Heavily overgrown, extent of midden not determined; mainly oyster shells visible. Schlichting (1973, 16-17) records 'a bank piled along edge of boulder clay knoll' measuring '130 feet long' and '2 to 4 feet thick'; midden contains majority of oyster shells as well as fragments of mussels, periwinkle, land snail, cockle and fire shattered stones. A radio-carbon determination of 300 +/- 50 bp (calibrated date range 1470 – 1690 AD) was recovered from oyster shell at this midden (Laboratory: Beta 161650) (Milner & Woodman 2007, 103).
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 2: East and South Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1994). In this instance the entry has been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Revised by: Paul Walsh
Date of revision: 25 June 2012
References
Milner, N. and Woodman, P. 2007 Deconstructing the myths of Irish shell middens. In N. Milner, O.E. Craig and G. Bailey (eds) Shell middens in Atlantic Europe. Oxford. Oxbow.
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