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Midden

Ardfry, County Galway, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Midden, Ardfry, County Galway, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Ardfry
County
Galway
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.23479, -9.00088
SMR number
GA094-114----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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

At the W end of the low-lying Ardfry peninsula in Galway Bay. An extensive 0.15m thick deposit, mainly of oyster shell with some periwinkle, is revealed in section along N shore of the peninsula and is treaceable for c. 800m at an average depth of c. 0.25m below present ground surface. Some shell is also visible to the W and SE of Loughaunascalia, where it has been exposed by burrowing rabbits, and along the S shoreline to the S of the folly (GA094-002----). The extent of the deposit suggests that the entire W end of this peninsula was once carpeted with shell. (Holt 1912, 250)

Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG

Date of upload: 3 March 2017

References

Holt, E.W.L. 1911-12 Notes on the Ordnance Survey Letters relating to the barony of Dunkellin: iii - Ballynacourty parish. Journal of the Galway Archaeological and Historical Society 7, 205-51.

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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