Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Midden
Ceathrú An Lisín, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ceathrú An Lisín
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.08316, -9.58397
- SMR number
- GA119-085----
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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
At base of an escarpment overlooking Baile an Mhothair, Inis Meáin. Known locally as Réidh na hUanach from legends connected with the natural cave at this spot (Robinson 1980). In 1933, Mac Domhnaill (Topgr. Files, NMI) pinpointed it as being 'cliff dwellings showing traces of kitchen midden at entrance'. Apart from the partly blocked entrance to the natural cave, no visible surface trace survives.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. I - West Galway'. Compiled by Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993).
Date of upload: 05 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Moundunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Crossunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.