Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Midden
Kilroe, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilroe
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.21163, -9.20656
- SMR number
- MA022-126----
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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
Located on a small, roughly oblong island (c. 55m N–S; c. 20m E–W) in tidal sandflats c. 50m N of the shore, in the inner reaches of Killala Bay, on its SW side c. 770m E of Killala town. This midden is evident as a layer of seashells intermittently exposed in section on the E side of the island.
Notified to NMS by Sue Zajac.
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 31 December 2019
Nearby in the register
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Battlefieldunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.