Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Midden
Rockmarshall, County Louth, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rockmarshall
- County
- Louth
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- NULL
- Coordinates
- 54.01314, -6.30002
- SMR number
- LH008-026002-
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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 just W of midden LH008-026001-, on the edge of a morainic ridge, close to the entrance of a former lagoon. The midden was of indeterminate size, composed mainly of oyster (Ostrea edulis) and periwinkle (Littorina littorea) in association with a number of undiagnostic flint artefacts (CLAJ 1949, 14-20; Woodman 1978, 306-8).
Nearby in the register
- Middenunder 1 mi
- Middenunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.