Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Midden
Ardfry, County Galway, Ireland
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----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗
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
- Designed landscape - follyunder 1 mi
- Middenunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Cairn - clearance cairnunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.