Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Midden
Tanrego West, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Tanrego West
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.23461, -8.61511
- SMR number
- SL019-057003-
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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
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 a short distance W of a modern boat slipway. On inspection in 1994 it was found to consist of a layer of oyster shells (D 0.1m - 0.3m) exposed intermittently for several metres. The deposits are overlain by a collapsed field wall. (Synge 1985, 128)
Compiled by: Paul Walsh
Date of upload: 22 August 2012
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Middenunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.