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Midden

Rosses Upper, County Sligo, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Midden, Rosses Upper, 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
Rosses Upper
County
Sligo
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
54.30959, -8.57213
SMR number
SL008-219----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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

At the W end of Rosses Point peninsula, located on a W-facing rocky slope at the N end of the small/south beach of Rosses Upper. The ground rises quite steeply in a grassy slope above the midden and drops to a sloping rocky surface below the midden.
A thin layer of fragmentary oyster shells (L c. 6m N-S; max. D 0.05m) is visible in section, eroding out of the top of a layer of orange-brown boulder clay, which overlies bedrock. The shell layer is now overlain by a thin layer (D 0.1-0.15m) of dark orange-brown humic soil and sod, but appears originally have been within a sand dune or sand layer, now largely eroded away.
The densest concentration (L 2m) of shells occurs towards the N end of the layer. To S of this the layer is visible intermittently, with meagre quantities of shell exposed. At its S end, the layer can be traced extending to E for c. 0.6m. The original extend of the midden is unclear; it seems likely that much of it has already eroded away. Two other middens (SL008-220----; SL008-203----) are located c. 9m and 20m to SE, respectively.

Notified to NMS by Tamlyn McHugh

Attached images:
SL008-219----_01.JPG location of midden viewed from N
SL008-219----_02.JPG viewed from W, showing N end of the midden
SL008-219----_03.JPG detail of shells

Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy

Date of upload: 26 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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