Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Midden
Inis Gé Theas, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Inis Gé Theas
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.10826, -10.22791
- SMR number
- MA023-033002-
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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
At a possible habitation site (MA023-033001-) on the SE shoreline of Inishkea South.
A moderately dense layer (L c. 2m N−S; D 0.2-0.3m) of shells can be traced intermittently in the eroding W-facing slope of the sand mound/possible habitation site. It is composed primarily of limpet shells, with lesser quantities of periwinkle shells, calcined animal bones and occasional charcoal fragments, in a light-grey sandy matrix. It is overlain by a thin layer (D c. 0.1m) of dark, sandy topsoil and sod.
Attached images:
MA023-033002-_01.JPG viewed from W
MA023-033002-_02.JPG viewed from W
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 28 July 2022
Nearby in the register
- Habitation siteunder 1 mi
- Habitation siteunder 1 mi
- Middenunder 1 mi
- Field boundaryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.