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
- 53.12567, -9.76689
- SMR number
- GA110-039029-
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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
This midden was revealed during the course of research excavations in the middle enclosure of Dún Aonghasa (GA110-039----); it lay to the S of a house (GA110-039028-) and consisted of extensive dumps of limpet shells. Finds recovered from it included pottery, pumice, bone points and a bone pin, as well as a small number of coarse stone tools, a bronze ring and a heavily corroded broken bronze implement. A sample of animal bone from four contiguous flat stones that projected out from under the foundation course of the inner enclosure wall to the S, and which marked the end of the occupation sequence of the midden, and the house to its N, produced a radiocarbon date range of 900-510 cal. BC (Cotter 2012, vol. 1, 262-3).
Compiled by: Olive Alcock
Date of upload: 23 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
- Habitation siteunder 1 mi
- House - Bronze Ageunder 1 mi
- Habitation siteunder 1 mi
- Habitation siteunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.