Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Midden
Monteensudder, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Monteensudder
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.74821, -9.54829
- SMR number
- CO104-002----
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1865 · Ireland, (South) Sheet. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1882 · Ireland (southern half). (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
Two deposits of shells (L 10m; D 0.5m) visible on cliff face. Excavation by McCarthy (1987, 15) revealed simple mounds of shells with lenses of burnt material. Intensely burnt material found below midden; fractured stones recovered. Radiocarbon dates for two combined charcoal and shell samples are as follows; Trench 1: Charcoal 2510 + 80 B.P. Shell 3040 ± 60 B.P.Trench 2: Charcoal 2120 ± 50 B.P. Shell 2610 ± 50 B.P.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 1: West Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1992). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.