Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Midden
Merlinpark, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Merlinpark
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.28029, -8.99854
- SMR number
- GA094-144----
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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
In pastureland c. 50m to the NNW of Merlin Castle (GA094-023----). This midden, consisting of a dense concentration of oyster, winkle and mussel shells, came to light during the removal of topsoil. It was roughly circular in plan (diam. c. 10m) and was exposed at a depth of 0.3-0.8m below the sod cover. A smaller concentration of shells (diam. c. 4m) with some animal bones and teeth was visible c. 20m to the E.
Compiled by: Olive Alcock
Date of upload: 3 March 2017
Nearby in the register
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
- Sheela-na-gigunder 1 mi
- House - 18th/19th centuryunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape featureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.