Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Midden
Kerraunngark South, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kerraunngark South
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.23334, -9.54335
- SMR number
- GA091-012----
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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
Close to the seashore near the mouth of Cuan Chasla. Known locally as Toit Chonáin (pers. comm. T. Robinson), it consists of a roughly circular grassed-over mound (D 13.5m, H 2.4m) composed of shells, principally periwinkle and limpet. This may be the 'kitchen-midden' referred to by Kinahan (1872, 10-11) and Brunicardi (1914, 200).
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
- Ritual site - holy/saint's stoneunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.