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Midden

Doonloughan,Keerhaun South,Truska, County Galway, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Midden, County Galway, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Doonloughan,Keerhaun South,Truska
County
Galway
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.44373, -10.13696
SMR number
GA048-008001-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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

To SW of a similar, if not associated, midden complex (GA035-024----). An extensive series of middens and habitation sites which extend for c.2km along the coast between Doonloughan Bay, to S, and Knock headland to N. Composed mainly of shells, including periwinkle, whelk, limpet and cockle, but quantities of animal bones are also in evidence (pers. comm. F. Mc Cormick). A number of huts (GA048-008002-), stone walls, enclosures and burials (GA048-008009-) are associated with the middens. A number of stray finds have been recovered over the years. A sample taken in 1988 has produced a calibrated 14C determination of between AD 700-900 (pers. comm. M. Gibbons). (Gibbons et al. 1988, 65-8; Waddell 1977, 63)

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

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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