Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Midden
Tanrego West, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Tanrego West
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 54.23623, -8.62038
- SMR number
- SL019-057001-
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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
One of seven middens (SL019-057001-, SL019-057002-, SL019-057003-, SL019-057004-, SL019-057005-, SL019-057006-, SL019-057007-) identified along a 1.3km length of shoreline on the W side of Ballisodare Bay, four in Tanrego West townland and three in Tanrego East or Carrowmore townland. Located at a small, grass-covered rise on the shore edge. On inspection in 1994 it was found to consist of a dense layer of oyster shells in a matrix of dark brown soil (L c. 10m; D 0.5m). The deposits are directly beneath the sod and overlie sandy soil. A C14 determination from a sample taken in 2000 from this midden returned a calibrated of 3,660 - 3,440 BC (Woodman and Milner 2013, 39). (Synge 1985, 128)
Compiled by: Paul Walsh
Date of upload: 22 August 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
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Middenunder 1 mi
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.