Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Midden
Streedagh, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Streedagh
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.40012, -8.56912
- SMR number
- SL005-018----
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1869 map "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1904 · Sheet 4. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1922 · Ireland - northern section. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
Situated on the steep, exposed SW-facing slope of a sand dune, overlooking a cobble and sand beach and small bay to SW. The midden is located part-way down the dune slope about 8-10m above the beach. The shifting nature of the dunes exposes and obscures the layer over time, but on various occasion shells, fragments of animal bones and fire cracked stone have been noted extending over an area of 8m by 8m. A hammerstone was recovered from this area in 1962 (NMI 1964, 104).
Following erosion and collapse of the dune slope in Winter 2020/21, an enlarged section of the midden layer was exposed, with burnt stone, charcoal-enriched soil, shells and bone fragments clearly visible in a dark brown/black soil matrix (pers. comm. Tamlyn Mc Hugh 2021).
Attached image supplied courtesy of Tamlyn McHugh:
SL005-018----_01.JPG
Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy
Date of revised upload: 22 February 2021
Nearby in the register
- Megalithic tomb - wedge tombunder 1 mi
- Cistunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.