Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Midden
Kilboglashy, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilboglashy
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.21395, -8.51289
- SMR number
- SL020-109007-
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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
At the base of the S boundary wall of the extended graveyard (SL020-109002-) at Kilboglashy. Cut antler bone, oyster shells and animal bones were found 0.15-0.25m below the surface during the construction of a road to a sewage tank in 1970 (NMI). Quernstones were also found in the vicinity of the midden (NMI). A second shell midden (SL020-109012-) was subsequently found outside the NE wall of the graveyard and a third (SL020-109013-) in the field to S of the graveyard. (Cahill and Sikora 2011, Vol. 2, 512-3)
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Sligo' compiled by Ursula Egan, Elizabeth Byrne, Mary Sleeman with Sheila Ronan and Connie Murphy (Dublin Stationery Office, 2005.
Date of upload: 18 January 2008
References
Egan, U., Byrne, E., Sleeman, M. 2005 Archaeological Inventory of County Sligo, Vol. 1: South Sligo. Dublin. Stationery Office.
Cahill, M. and Sikora, M. (eds) 2011 Breaking ground, finding graves - reports on the excavations of burials by the National Museum of Ireland, 1927-2006, 2 vols. Dublin. Wordwell Ltd. in association with the National Museum of Ireland.
Nearby in the register
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Graveslabunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.