Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Midden
Knocknahaw, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Knocknahaw
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.55299, -10.01025
- SMR number
- GA022-114----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
On the W side of a trackway running along the shoreline of Ballynakill Harbour; just below the field level. This midden (visible extent 0.8m) is almost completely obscured by scraw and grass. It consists of a narrow band of oyster shells (D 0.1m) that visible c. 0.3m below the sod cover. There is a drop of c. 1m between it and the trackway.
This monument was brought to the attention of the Archaeological Survey of Ireland by M. Gibbons, Archaeologist, Clifden.
The following image has been uploaded: GA022-114----_01.jpg
Compiled by: Olive Alcock
Date of upload: 24 February 2016
Nearby in the register
- Stone rowunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - court tombunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.