Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Midden
Inis Gé Theas, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Inis Gé Theas
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.12337, -10.20615
- SMR number
- MA023-018002-
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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
Associated with a prehistoric house (MA023-018001-) at the NE end of Inishkea South.
This midden represents food waste that accumulated during occupation of the house. An in situ layer (L c. 1-2m) of limpets and periwinkles shells and fragments of animal bone is exposed in section in the eroding E edge of the house. A few stones associated with the layer appear to be fire-cracked. The midden overlies or is partly incorporated into a compact layer of brown soil (D c. 0.1-0.5m), possibly an old ground surface. Shells and animal bones are also loosely scattered on the ground surface throughout the interior of the house.
Attached images:
MA023-018002-_01.JPG Midden layer exposed in section on E side of house (MA023-018001-)
MA023-018002-_01.JPG Close-up of midden
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 20 December 202
Nearby in the register
- House - prehistoricunder 1 mi
- Middenunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.