Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Midden
Rossadillisk, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rossadillisk
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.55811, -10.13635
- SMR number
- GA022-121----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
In a sandy embankment on Sellerna Beach. This shell midden was noted extending intermittently along a 35m stretch of the beach where traces of modern house foundations are eroding from the embankment. It is composed of limpets, winkles, mussels and oysters. According to local information, oysters are not found naturally in this area.
The attached images are uploaded courtesy of Dr Deb Rotman.
GA022-121----_01.jpg Detailed view of midden material (Photograph: D. Rotman).
GA022-121----_02.jpg Midden material beneath house foundation (Photograph: D. Rotman).
Compiled by: Olive Alcock based on details kindly provided by Dr Deb Rotman, University of Notre Dame
Date of upload: 11 February 2015
Nearby in the register
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.