Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Midden
Ballincar, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballincar
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.30072, -8.51081
- SMR number
- SL008-197----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
Remains of a midden in a road-side fence exposed in the course of roadworks (Timoney & Timoney 2010, 4). A radiocarbon determination of 3148 +/- 45 BP (UB-4681) was obtained from a shell sample recovered from this midden (pers. comm. P.C. Woodman, M.A. Timoney).
M.A. Timoney and M. B. Timoney 2010 '03E0112. Final monitoring report including historical, architectural and photographic record of development for hotel complex and associated works at Ballincar House Hotel, Ballincar, Co. Sligo.'
Compiled by: Paul Walsh
Date of upload: 22 August 2012
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- House - fortified houseunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.