Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Midden
Dooghmakeon, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Dooghmakeon
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.74523, -9.89733
- SMR number
- MA095-033----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Located in the W face of sand dunes on Dooghmekeon Strand, at the S end of the area marked as ‘White Strand’ on the 1919 OS 6-inch map. A band of shells, within a sandy matrix, is visible in section in the eroding W face of the sand dune. It extends for c. 40m N-S, at a depth of c. 1m below the grass-covered top of the sand dune and c. 3-3.5m above the level of the beach. The midden is deepest (D c. 1m) towards the N end of its extent, where shell, stone, an animal tooth, and a possible stone wall were noted. Towards the S end of the midden, the concentration of shells lessens and layer gradually peters out. Shells, which had eroded out of the midden on to the beach, were identified as limpets and periwinkles. There is another midden (MA095-001----) c. 150m to S.
Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 30 April 2014
Nearby in the register
- Middenunder 1 mi
- Burialunder 1 mi
- Middenunder 1 mi
- Ogham stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.