Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Midden
Oyster Island, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Oyster Island
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Kitchen Midden
- Coordinates
- 54.30183, -8.57256
- SMR number
- SL008-101----
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 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)
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The National Monuments Service's description
Situated in a vertical scarp overlooking foreshore at the NW end of Oyster Island. This midden, which is indicated on the 1940-1 OS 6-inch map as 'Kitchen Midden', extends for c. 30m and is visible as a thin band (T 0.1-0.3m) of shell 0.1-0.3cm below the sod and 1m above the foreshore. The midden material consists primarily of oyster shells with some limpets also visible.
Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan
Date of upload: 21 April 2011
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Middenunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Kiln - limeunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.