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
- 54.41537, -8.51939
- SMR number
- SL005-194----
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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
This midden is exposed in section in the eroding land-edge on a small headland, which is located on the SE side of Conor’s Island, at the NE end of the Streedagh peninsula. The headland projects to SSE into a sheltered tidal channel between Conor’s Island and the mainland, where sand flats are exposed at low tide.
This midden is evident as a layer (D 0.2-0.25m) of fragmentary cockle, oyster and periwinkle shells in a matrix of pale grey sand. It is located at a height of c. 0.8m above the base of the section face, overlying a sterile layer of boulder clay incorporating large stones and boulders. Above the midden layer, the section face rises (H 1-2m) in a number of sandy layers which are slumped and eroded. The section face is partly concealed by vegetation, and the full extent of the midden is unclear, but intermittent evidence of the layer can be traced for 10-12m NE-SW.
This midden was sampled in 2009 for scientific and dating purposes, and a charcoal sample submitted for radiocarbon dating produced a late Mesolithic date (Kytamnov et al, 2010, 11).
Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 26 July 2017
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Middenunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.