Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Midden
Aillebrack, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Aillebrack
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.41191, -10.13683
- SMR number
- GA048-020----
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
Located on the W face of a small sandy ravine leading down to a beach. Periwinkle and limpet shells, charcoal and what appear to be animal bones are exposed in the dune face and on the ground surface over an area c. 7-10m in length and c. 2-3m wide. This monument was brought to our attention by C. O’Sullivan.
Compiled by: Olive Alcock
Date of upload: 16 July 2021
Nearby in the register
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Middenunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape - follyunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.