Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Midden
Cloghboley, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cloghboley
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.33881, -8.60993
- SMR number
- SL007-053----
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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
In the land-edge scarp on the N shoreline of Drumcliff Bay.
A thin layer (L 1.15m; D 0.05m) of sea shells –cockles, periwinkles, razor shells –is exposed in section at a height of c. 1.3m above the beach cobbles that have accumulated at the scarp base. The shells are visible at the base of a layer (D 0.2m) of brown soil, which underlies a grass/overgrowth-covered overhang (H 1.5-2m) that slumps from field level at the top of the scarp.
The midden overlies stony orange-coloured boulder clay, which in turn overlies a gravelly layer which drops to beach level. The full extent and date of the midden are unknown. Two other middens (SL007-054----; and SL007-055----) are located 195m and 245m to E, respectively.
Attached images:
SL007-053----_01.JPG Midden viewed from S
SL007-053----_02.JPG Detail of shells
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 5 August 2021
Nearby in the register
- Middenunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Middenunder 1 mi
- Bastioned fortunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.