Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Midden
Gooreen Island, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Gooreen Island
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.56878, -10.15461
- SMR number
- GA009D041----
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1841 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · 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
On the NE shoreline of Gooreen Island, in the intertidal zone. This deposit of limpet shells (0.3m N-S; 0.2m E-W) is visible at low tide in a layer of peat beneath a storm beach. The peat was exposed following the recent winter storms. The midden was brought to our attention by Mr. Michael Gibbons, Archaeologist, Clifden.
Compiled by: Olive Alcock
Date of upload: 24 February 2016
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.