Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Midden
Ballinaleama, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballinaleama
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.41354, -10.17501
- SMR number
- GA048-002----
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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
Amongst the sand-dunes at SW end of the peninsula which terminates in the island archipelago of Slyne Head. An extensive series of middens exposed in the eroding faces and basins of the dunes. Layered deposits containing charcoal, burnt stones and a wide variety of shells including periwinkle, whelk and broken limpets are visible, as are a number of walls and a possible hut. The 'circular ... stone hut' noted by Praeger (1980, 167) 'near Slyne Head' may have been located in this area. (Killanin 1954, 94; Killanin and Duignan 1967, 94)
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. I - West Galway'. Compiled by Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993).
Date of upload: 05 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Field boundaryunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Penitential stationunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.