Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Midden
Rinnaraw, County Donegal, Ireland
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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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1881 "Ireland to Illustrate the Military Condition of the Country." (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
- House - early medievalunder 1 mi
- Middenunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Mass-rockunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.