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Midden

Hall Demesne, County Donegal, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Midden, Hall Demesne, 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
Hall Demesne
County
Donegal
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
54.63883, -8.17565
SMR number
DG099-023----

Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.

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)
  • 1904 · Sheet 4. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1922 · Ireland - northern section. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

In sand dunes on a small headland jutting into the N side of Donegal Bay.
A thin layer (L 1.4m at least; T c. 0.05m) of sea shells is visible in section in the eroding S-facing slope of a sand dune, at a level c. 2.5m below the top of the dune. The shells –mussels, clams, periwinkles and limpets- occur in a matrix of grey sand, noticeably darker than the pale sand in the dunes as a whole. The layer is very degraded and gapped, intermittent traces are visible further to E, but its full extent is uncertain. There is a burial (DG099-022----) a few meters to W, and a hut site (DG099-020----) and cluster of cairns (DG099-021001---- to DG099-021006-) are located 90m to W in the same dune system.

Attached images:
DG099-023----_01.JPG Midden exposed in section
DG099-023----_02.JPG Location viewed from S

Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy

Date of upload: 28 November 2019

Nearby in the register

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

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