Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Midden
Dooaghs, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Dooaghs
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.09371, -9.92795
- SMR number
- KE055-009----
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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
A number of lenses of midden material occur at different levels in a 14m long stretch of an eroding sand-face c. 650m SW of 5 (KE055-004----). The shells are predominantly those of cockles, mussels and periwinkles and there is some burnt stone present. The sand in which the lenses occur rests on a layer of dark peaty material (information: G. Diggin).
The above description is derived from A. O'Sullivan and J. Sheehan (compilers), 'The Iveragh peninsula: an archaeological survey of South Kerry'. Cork University Press (1996), no. 10. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload: 28 July 2013
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.