Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Midden
Doonloughan,keerhaun South,truska, County Galway, Ireland
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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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
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
- Burialunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Field boundaryunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.