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
- 54.33119, -8.53753
- SMR number
- SL008-217----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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 the Finned peninsula overlooking the inner reaches of Drumcliff Bay.
This midden is exposed in section in the vertical land-edge scarp (H 2m) bordering a stony beach. It occurs at a height of 1.4m above beach level, and c. 0.4-0.5m below the top of the scarp. It underlies a layer of moderately stony, grey soil and overlies compact, stony orange boulder clay. It is evident as a thin layer (L c. 2m WSW−ESE; D 0.05m) of sea shells, oysters, cockles and occasional periwinkles, intermixed with occasional burnt stone in a dark brown soil matrix. Many of the shells are in a fragmentary condition.
The layer is partly concealed by brambles and overgrowth.
Notified to NMS by Tamlyn McHugh
Attached images:
SL008-217----_01.JPG viewed from S.
SL008-217----_01.JPG viewed from W.
SL008-217----_03.JPG detail of shells
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 7 July 2021
Nearby in the register
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.