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Midden

Cill Mhuirbhigh, County Galway, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Midden, Cill Mhuirbhigh, 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
Cill Mhuirbhigh
County
Galway
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.12550, -9.76723
SMR number
GA110-039008-

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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

During the course of excavations in the W half of the inner enclosure at Dún Aonghasa (GA110-039----) a large limpet shell midden (3m N-S; 2.5m E-W) was revealed when wall spill and the underlying abandonment layers in the SW quadrant of Structure 2 (GA110-039007-) were removed. The midden extended over the ruined foundations of the W wall of Structure 5 (GA110-039006-) and clearly belonged to a phase of activity post-dating it. Finds retrieved included a sherd of abraded pottery and two used cobbles. The midden could be contemporary with the occupation of Structure 2 (early medieval date), but equally could belong to a very late phase of activity (Cotter vol. 1, 309-10, 313).

Compiled by: Olive Alcock

Date of upload: 22 June 2020

References

Cotter, C. 2012 The western stone forts project. Excavations at Dún Aonghasa and Dún Eoghanachta. 2 vols. Dublin. Wordwell Ltd.

Nearby in the register

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

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