Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Midden
Cill Mhuirbhigh, County Galway, Ireland
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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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
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
- Burialunder 1 mi
- House - Bronze Ageunder 1 mi
- House - early medievalunder 1 mi
- Burialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.