Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Midden
Inishgort, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Inishgort
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.59554, -10.26286
- SMR number
- GA009D048----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
At the SW end of Inishgort island. Recorded by Mr. M. Gibbons, this well-defined midden (L c. 8; D 0.3m) is exposed in a jagged section of the ground c. 7m to the SSW of a cashel (GA009D047001-); a storm beach lies immediately to the S. The midden is visible just below the thin sod cover and it rests on underlying boulder clay. It is largely composed of limpet shells with smaller amounts of periwinkles. Numerous fire-cracked stones and white quartz stones are interspersed within it. The midden may predate the cashel. Two fragments of worked mudstone resembling shale axes were found, out of context, in an area of debris on the edge of the storm beach.
The following image has been uploaded courtesy of Mr. M. Gibbonsl: GA009D048----.pdf
Compiled by: Olive Alcock with information supplied by Mr. M. Gibbons
Date of upload: 7 June 2023
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Promontory fort - coastalunder 1 mi
- Leachtunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.