Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Midden
Culleenamore, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Culleenamore
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.25282, -8.58973
- SMR number
- SL014-138----
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Shown on 4 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 on cliff-edge slope on E side of Ballysadare Bay, on inspection in 1991, this was found to consist of a compacted shell-midden consisting mainly of oysters but with a mixture of other shells (19m NW-SE by 5m E-W and up to 5m deep). At the E the midden was covered by the modern road and was formerly covered by a stone-built retaining wall. Part of this wall and the upper 1m of the midden was leveled in 1991. The exposed section of the midden contained two thin lenses of charcoal (c. 1m long), the probable remnants of hearths. These lenses were covered by 0.5m of shells suggesting that they were in use during the formation of the midden.
Compiled by: Paul Walsh
Date of upload: 5 August 2015
Nearby in the register
- Settlement platformunder 1 mi
- Middenunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Settlement platformunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.