Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Midden
Ballinlig (Tireragh By.), County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballinlig (Tireragh By.)
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not inidcated
- Coordinates
- 54.24564, -8.62873
- SMR number
- SL013-087002-
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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
In pasture, on the N side of Ballinlig point, a narrow finger of land that juts into the NW end of Ballysadare Bay. A layer (D 0.15-0.3m) of shells in a matrix of dark brown soil is exposed in an section face on the shoreline. It underlies sod (D 0.01m) and a layer of humic soil (D 0.2m). The midden layer is composed predominately of oyster shells. A few periwinkles shells, mussel shells and flecks of charcoal are also visible. When inspected in 1994 the layer was exposed for a lenght of 25m. When visited in 2013 it could be traced intermittently for of c. 15m WNW-ESE. There is a midden (SL013-087001-) located c. 80m to SE, and another midden (SL013-124----) c. 200m to W.
Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan
Date of upload: 19 January 2011
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.