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Midden

Finned (Carbury By.), County Sligo, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Midden, Finned, County Sligo, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

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----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1869 map "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 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)
  • 1922 · Ireland - northern section. (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

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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