Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Midden
Conor'S Island, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Conor'S Island
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.41799, -8.51426
- SMR number
- SL002-054----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1869 "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Exposed in section in the land-edge scarp on the SE side of a headland, located on the E side of Conor’s Island, at the NE end of the Streedagh peninsula. The headland projects to NE into a sheltered tidal channel between Conor’s Island and the mainland, where sand flats are exposed at low tide.
A layer (D 0.1-0.2m) of very fragmentary oyster and cockle shells in a sandy matrix is exposed intermittently, and at different levels, in the slumped section face, over a distance of c. 10m NE−SW. Only small quantities of shell are exposed at any one point, and the full extent of the midden is unclear.
Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 26 July 2017
References
Kytmannow, T., Hunt, C., Malone, C. and Kahlert, T. 2009 Living on the Edge: Archaeological Survey of shell middens on five islands in Sligo Bay. Unpublished Report to the Heritage Council of Ireland, 25th of Nov 2009.
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- Enclosureunder 1 mi
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.