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Midden

Rinnaraw, County Donegal, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Midden, Rinnaraw, County Donegal, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Rinnaraw
County
Donegal
Country
Ireland
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
55.17842, -7.93940
SMR number
DG016-016003-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1881 map "Ireland to Illustrate the Military Condition of the Country." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1881 · Ireland to Illustrate the Military Condition of the Country. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1900 · Ireland (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1904 · Sheet 1. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

Located adjacent to a house (DG016-016001-) in the NW quadrant of a cashel (DG016-016----).
This midden was discovered in the course of an excavation of the cashel, which was undertaken in the late 1980’s (Comber et al. 2006, 84). It had accumulated along the external wall face on the NW side of the house, immediately N of the doorway. It was composed predominately of winkles and limpets shells, and overlay a layer of black soil and small stones, in which three sherds of souterrain ware were found. Another midden (DG016-016002-) was found on the NW side of the house.

Compiler: Jane O'Shaughnessy

Date of upload: 12 December 2019

References

Comber, M., Murray, E., Hamilton-Dyer, S., Molloy, K. and Hickey, L. 2006 Tom Fanning’s excavations at Rinnaraw Cashel, Portnablagh, Co. Donegal. Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 106C, 67-124.

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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