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
- 53.37382, -9.96920
- SMR number
- GA063-024----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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 42m; T 0.002-1m), on a S-facing cliff face, was exposed following the winter storms in December 2013/January 2014. It is composed of mainly winkle shells to the E and limpet shells to the W. Intermittent flecks of charcoal are evident particularly in the W half of the section as well as fragments of butchered animal bone.
The attached image is uploaded courtesy of Dr Deb Rotman.
GA063-024----_01.jpg View of midden from S (Photograph: D. Rotman).
Compiled by: Olive Alcock based on details kindly provided by Dr Deb Rotman, University of Notre Dame.
Date of upload: 5 February 2015
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.