Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Midden
Beltra (tirawley By., Lackan Par.), County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Beltra (tirawley By., Lackan Par.)
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.28491, -9.25253
- SMR number
- MA008-002003-
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
In a burial mound (MA008-002001-) on the W side of Lacken Strand.
Midden material, in the form of concentrations of shells (limpets), animal bones (cattle, sheep, pig), charcoal fragments and burnt material, has been noted at several different levels within the eroding section face on the seaward side of the mound.
Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 2 July 2019
Nearby in the register
- Hearthunder 1 mi
- Burial moundunder 1 mi
- Middenunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.