Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Midden
Cromane Lower, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cromane Lower
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 52.13334, -9.89147
- SMR number
- KE056-059----
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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
In early 2018, a shell midden, consisting of a small lens of dark soil full of compacted shells, has become exposed on the NE facing shoreline. About 0.3m below ground level, the strip is 3.4m long, 0.5m thick with shells largely consisting of mussel shells with some cockle periwinkle shells also.
Compiled by Aoibheann Lambe
Date of upload: 30 May 2018
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - cashel1 mi
- Clochan1 mi
- Souterrain1 mi
- Church1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.