Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Midden
Ballinlig (tireragh By.), County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballinlig (tireragh By.)
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 54.24100, -8.62664
- SMR number
- SL019-046----
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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
Not marked on any edition of the OS 6-inch map. Situated on the E side of a penninsula which juts NNE-wards into Ballisodare Bay. A dense layer of oyster shells (T 0.3m - 0.4m) in a matrix of dark soil is visible along most of a 400m long length of coastline. At the NE of the penninsula the lens is overlain by a layer of sand and is underlain by a stony subsoil. The greatest concentration is at a D-shaped projection of land at the SE of the penninsula. Firstly there is a lens at the shoreline. Secondly there is a naturally-occurring pool of water c.45m back from the shoreline. Between the shore and the pool are large quantities of midden material. The greatest concentration (dims. c.50m N-S; c.30m E-W) is adjacent to the E shoreline of the pool. (Synge 1985, 128)
Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan
Date of upload: 19 January 2011
Nearby in the register
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.