Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Midden
Callow (ballynahinch By.), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Callow (ballynahinch By.)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.39713, -10.03642
- SMR number
- GA049-030001-
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 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
During the course of the excavation of two burials (see GA049-030----) that were exposed along the shoreline following a series of winter storms in 2014, an occupation layer/midden was noted beneath them. It consisted of burnt areas, post-holes and pits – some of which appeared to contain shells, fish, bird and animal bones (information from the National Museum of Ireland, February 2016).
Updated by : Olive Alcock
Date of revised upload: 1 March 2021
Nearby in the register
- Burialunder 1 mi
- Middenunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Midden1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.