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 indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.24580, -8.63176
- SMR number
- SL013-124----
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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, located at the W end, on the N side, of Ballinlig point, a narrow finger of land that juts into the NW side of Ballysadare Bay. A layer (L c. 2m E–W; D 0.2m) of shells, in a matrix of dark brown soil, is exposed in an eroding section face at the edge of a field on the shoreline. The midden layer is composed of a dense concentration of oyster shells, with a few periwinkles and cockle shells also visible. It lies beneath a layer of sod (D 0.01m) and overlies sterile gravelly orange brown silty soil. There is another midden (SL013-087002-) located c. 200m to E.
Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 18 June 2013
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.