Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Midden
Ballynakilly (inch Ed), County Donegal, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballynakilly (inch Ed)
- County
- Donegal
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- NULL
- Coordinates
- 55.05812, -7.51598
- SMR number
- DG037-025----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
This site was identified by local Derry amateur archaeologists Eddie Harkin and Tommy Gallagher. It was visited by P. O'Donovan (for Dept. of E, H & LG) on December 18th 2006. Immediately above the monument is a house and newly excavated garden. Immediately below the monument is a narrow roadway. The monument is located where the base of the new garden meets the roadway. At the NW end the lens is c. 6m long ranging between 0.15m at NE to 0.45m at SW where there is a electricity pole. Approx. 10m SE of this is a second, much disturbed spread of measuring 6.6m(NW-SE). Both middens contained oyster, mussel, periwinkle shells and burnt soil. The first also contained tiny quantities of burnt bone.
Nearby in the register
- Promontory fort - coastalunder 1 mi
- Middenunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - portal tombunder 1 mi
- Cistunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.