Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Midden
Liberties of Carlingford, County Louth, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Liberties of Carlingford
- County
- Louth
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- NULL
- Coordinates
- 54.04195, -6.17777
- SMR number
- LH005-029001-
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1636 "Vltoniae Orientalis Pars" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
The following description is derived from both the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Louth' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1986) and the 'Archaeological Survey of County Louth' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1991). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload/revision: 17 July 2007
Situated in 'Chapel Field', E of Carlingford Harbour, on raised beach. The midden, exposed in the cliff face for a length of 26m (T 1.5m) and 4.5m above present water-level, consisted mainly of shell, the most common being whelks (Buccinum undatam) and periwinkles (Littorina littorea). Animal bone found included pig, oxen, pony, sheep, lamb and fish. The site also yielded dating evidence in the form of sherds of 14 different late medieval pottery vessels. (CLAJ 1948, 288-91)
Nearby in the register
- Churchunder 1 mi
- House - 18th/19th centuryunder 1 mi
- Burialunder 1 mi
- House - medievalunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.