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Midden

Carrickanee, County Donegal, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Midden, Carrickanee, 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
Carrickanee
County
Donegal
Country
Ireland
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
55.06117, -7.46244
SMR number
DG038-054----

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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

Described in 2001 as 'Harte referred to a shell midden which he discovered on the Inch Island end of the Inch Road embankment. With reference to the embankment he noted 'No 2 is at te opposite end on Inch Island'. While he referred also to a good section being evident he noted 'No 2 is nearly all removed for filling or manure'. Harte's observations that the sites 1, 2 and 3 were 12-14 feet from high water suggests that the three cottages built at the immediate end of the embankment may have removed any final remnant of the midden. The corner of the field immediately behind these cottages was examined and only occasional fragments of shell were noted in the topsoil. A small selection of flint artefacts had been recovered from the corner of this field' (Woodman & Milner 2001, 7-8; Milner & Woodman 2007, 104-5, No. 2).

Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien

Date of upload: 17 August 2010

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

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

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