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Midden

Inis Gé Thuaidh, County Mayo, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Midden, Inis Gé Thuaidh, County Mayo, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Inis Gé Thuaidh
County
Mayo
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
54.12942, -10.18580
SMR number
MA023-014036-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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

Located on the SE shoreline of Inishkea North. There is a graveyard (MA023-014002-) 8m to N.
A dense layer (L c. D 0.2-0.3m) of seashells, predominately limpets and periwinkles, with occasional fish bones and fire-cracked stones, in a matrix of dark sandy soil, is exposed in section intermittently for a length of c. 20m along the rocky shoreline. It underlies a layer (D 0.1m) of sand topped by sod. The base of the shallow section face is largely obscured by piles of loose stones and boulders tossed up by the sea.
It is a National Monument in state ownership (379).

Attached images:
MA023-014036-_01.JPG Midden exposed in section viewed from S
MA023-014036-_02.JPG E end of midden
MA023-014036-_03.JPG Close up of shells

Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy

Date of upload: 28 July 2023

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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