Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Midden
Lambay Island, County Dublin, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lambay Island
- County
- Dublin
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 53.48935, -6.03472
- SMR number
- DU009-001004-
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1799 map "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1799 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1841 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
Excavations at The Point in the SW corner of Lambay Island in 1995 revealed a layer of pebbles intermixed with animal bones and a rimsherd of 'B' Ware (Cooney 1996, 25-26). This overlay burials (DU009-010003-).
Compiled by: Geraldine Stout
Updated by: Christine Baker
Date of upload: 31 December 2014
References
Cooney, G. 1996 The Point Lambay Island. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 1995: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 25-6. Bray. Wordwell.
Nearby in the register
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- Promontory fort - coastalunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Flat cemeteryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.