Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Midden
Carrowsteelagh, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carrowsteelagh
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.27747, -9.22274
- SMR number
- MA008-007001-
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1841 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗
The National Monuments Service's description
This record refers to a midden, which was noted in undulating, marram grass-covered sand dunes to E of Lackan Bay. In the SMR file it is listed in the same record as a house(MA008-007002-), which was recorded by Major Aldridge (NMI Correspondence Files, 1966), however, no details are given of the midden. The midden was not found when the area was inspected in 1995 and 2010.
Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 15 July 2019
Nearby in the register
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Excavation - miscellaneousunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.