Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Midden
Horse Island, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Horse Island
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.34320, -8.67579
- SMR number
- SL007-045----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
This is one of three middens (SL007-045----; SL007-046----; SL007-047----) exposed in section on the shoreline of Horse Island. A sampling strategy (09E0174) was undertaken in 2009 as part of a radio-carbon dating programme, and charcoal samples from SL007-046 and SL007-047---- returned dates in the Early Christian period. This midden was not dated. It is suggested that these middens may be part of a more extensive system along this stretch of the island shoreline (pers. comm. T. Kytmannow 2012).
Compiled by: Paul Walsh
Date of revised upload: 6 June 2016
Nearby in the register
- Middenunder 1 mi
- Middenunder 1 mi
- Barrow - mound barrowunder 1 mi
- Signal towerunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.