Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Midden
Drumcliff South, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Drumcliff South
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.32620, -8.49517
- SMR number
- SL008-084016-
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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
Located beneath a public car park, c. 40m to E of Drumcliff round tower (SL008-082004-) and 8m N of the high cross (SL008-084004-) and graveyard (SL008-084002-).
This midden was found in August 2018 during archaeological monitoring (Licence no. E005004) of the digging of a service trench (L 2.5m E−W; Wth 1.15m; D 0.8m) to repair a leaking water pipe (McHugh 2018). The midden was exposed at a depth of 0.5m below the surface in the N section face of the trench. It consisted of a layer (L 1m E−W; D 0.2m) of oyster, periwinkle and limpet shells in a matrix of dark-brown, friable clayey silt. The midden was recorded, and is preserved in situ. The trench was backfilled with gravel. (McHugh 2018, 31-34).
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 11 March 2019
References
McHugh, T. 2018 Archaeological monitoring, Drumcliffe, Co. Sligo, on behalf of
Drum East group water scheme. Fadó Archaeology, consent reference C000888 & excavation number E005004. Unpublished excavation report submitted to the NMS in August 2018.
Nearby in the register
- Cross - High crossunder 1 mi
- Crossunder 1 mi
- Middenunder 1 mi
- Stone sculptureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.