Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Midden
Curraghbinny, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Curraghbinny
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Kitchen Midden (1934)
- Coordinates
- 51.81317, -8.30017
- SMR number
- CO087-056----
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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 cliff top, along shoreline to N of Curraghbinny wood. Heavily overgrown; oyster, periwinkles and cockle shells visible in section for 12m and measuring 0.3m in thickness. According to Schlichting (1973, 17) deposit measures 75 feet in length and 2 feet 6 inches in depth; two levels of' flooring' (L 5 feet) composed of limestone flags visible in section. A radio-carobon determination of 990 +/- 50 bp (calibrated date range 880 – 1060 AD) was recovered from oyster shell at this midden (Laboratory: Beta 155382) (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.
Nearby in the register
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Middenunder 1 mi
- Burnt spreadunder 1 mi
- Middenunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.