Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Midden
Drumboy (newtowncunningham Ed), County Donegal, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Drumboy (newtowncunningham Ed)
- County
- Donegal
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 55.02282, -7.53096
- SMR number
- DG046-040----
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
Described in 2001 as 'To the north of the western edge of the railway embankment at Blanket Nook an area of shoreline on the edge of the adjacent field has, through erosion, on occasions produced traces of shell middens one of which has produced a sample for C14 dating Beta 155378 5130+-60bp' (Woodman & Milner 2001, 29-30; Milner & Woodman 2007, 104-5, No. 9).
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.