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
- 54.28531, -9.25253
- SMR number
- MA008-016----
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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
Located 4m N of a burial mound (MA008-002001-) exposed beneath a field fence in the E-facing land-edge section bordering the W side of Lackan Strand.
A concentration (D 0.2m; L c.4m) of limpet shells, intermixed with occasional charcoal fragments and small-medium sized, stones, some of which appear heat shattered, is visible in section within a layer (D 0.5m) of grey-dark brown sand. It occurs at a depth of c. 1m below the field surface level, and is c. 0.6m above the current level of the cobbles and boulders that cover the beach.
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.