Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Midden
Culleenduff, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Culleenduff
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 54.24960, -8.58615
- SMR number
- SL014-140----
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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
A readio-carbon determination of 3400 +/- 50 bp (calibrated date range 1940 – 1630 BC) was recovered from oyster shell at this midden (Laboratory: Beta 155380) (Milner & Woodman 2007, 104).
Compiled by: Paul Walsh
Date of upload: 25 June 2012
References
Milner, N. and Woodman, P. 2007 Deconstructing the myths of Irish shell middens. In N. Milner, O.E. Craig and G. Bailey (eds) Shell middens in Atlantic Europe. Oxford. Oxbow.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.