Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Midden
Finned (carbury By.), County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Finned (carbury By.)
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.33243, -8.54871
- SMR number
- SL008-216----
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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 on the S shoreline of Finned point which juts into the inner reaches of Drumcliff Bay.
This midden (L c. 6m E−W; D 0.2m) is exposed in section in the land-edge scarp (H c. 2.7m) bordering a stony beach. It is visible just below the sod line (D 0.05-0.1m) at a height of 2.6m above the beach, and overlies boulder clay. It consists of a dense layer of oysters shells, mixed with lesser quantities of cockles, periwinkles, mussels, whelks and limpets in a matrix of brown and reddish soils. Small and medium-sized angular stones are intermixed with the shells. Parts of the layer have slumped or collapsed where the section face is eroding, and parts are obscured by grass/vegetation.
Notified to NMS by Tamlyn McHugh
Attached images:
SL008-216----_01.JPG viewed from E. This photo is courtesy of Tamlyn McHugh
SL008-216----_02.JPG viewed from S
SL008-216----_03.JPG detail of shells
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 7 July 2021
Nearby in the register
- Middenunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.