Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Midden
Bunowna, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Bunowna
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.29206, -8.95766
- SMR number
- SL011-100----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 5 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Situated in a N-facing vertical earth and rock face, overlooking rocky foreshore to N. Midden extends in varying concentrations along the total length of the face from a towerhouse (SL011-020---) at E to the outflow of the Easky River at W. The main concentration of midden material is at the mouth of the Easky River. Here the midden is visible as a band (L 4m E-W; T 0.08m) of periwinkle and mussel shells within a band of darker soil, 0.3m below the top of the vertical face (total H of face 2.2m).
Compiled by: Mark Keegan
Date of upload: 19 January 2011
Nearby in the register
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
- Bawnunder 1 mi
- Fortificationunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.