Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Midden
An Teanach, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- An Teanach
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.22936, -10.05935
- SMR number
- MA009-014----
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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)
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The National Monuments Service's description
Westropp (JRSAI 1914, 69) recorded 'two unusually large middens, over 10 feet [3.05m ] high to the south, consisting of heaps, 4 to 5 feet [1.2-1.5m] thick, of burnt stones, black mould, charcoal and shells - oysters, cockles, limpets, periwinkles, and razor shells - with broken bones'. He described their location as 'in a hollow beside the nearly vanished old track from Annagh to Binghamstown,..' and he depicted their approximate location on a sketch plan. No trace of the middens was found during an inspection in 1995.
Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 14 November 2017
References
Westropp, T.J. 1914 The promontory forts and early remains of the coasts of County Mayo. Part 3. The Mullet (continued). Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 44, No. 1, 67-83.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.