Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Midden
Iorras Beag Thiar, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Iorras Beag Thiar
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.37752, -9.97062
- SMR number
- GA063-023----
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1753 map "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1753 · Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1790 · Composite: 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
This shell midden (L c. 30m; T 0.001-0.3m) is located on a SW-facing cliff edge in a small cove on the S shore of Cuan an Mhada/Dogs Bay. It was exposed following the winter storms in December 2013/January 2014. It is visible c. 0.5m below the sod cover and is densest towards its S end. Medium grey soils contain various shells, flecks of charcoal and fire-cracked rock. No animal bones or artefacts were noted.
Compiled by: Olive Alcock based on details kindly provided by Dr Deb Rotman, University of Notre Dame
Date of upload: 5 February 2014
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.