Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Midden
Fínis, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Fínis
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.29270, -9.81544
- SMR number
- GA077-014----
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
On SE shore of the island. An oval-shaped spread (3m by 2m) of limestone flakes exposed in the eroding surface of the sand. Robinson (1985, 50) also noted a 'blackish layer', possibly the remains of hearths, in the steep faces of the dunes along this shore. There is also a shell midden (GA077-012----) at NE end of the island.
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
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Middenunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.