Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Midden
Derryloney, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Derryloney
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.25040, -9.12252
- SMR number
- GA093-007----
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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 SE end of a boulder clay cliff adjoining the Silver Strand, near Bearna. Exposed in section as a band of black material (L 4.6m, T c. 0.2m). It contains a large number of periwinkle shells with burnt stone and charcoal also in evidence. A much more extensive deposit, noted here by Keary (1965, 110-11) in the early 1960s, consisted mainly of oysters, but he considered that it might be of natural origin.
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
- Middenunder 1 mi
- Middenunder 1 mi
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Hilltop enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.