Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Midden
Ballynamintra Middle, County Waterford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballynamintra Middle
- County
- Waterford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.11313, -7.75403
- SMR number
- WA030-015002-
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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
Situated on top of limestone outcrop that slopes down steeply to the S and W (H c. 15m). An enclosure (WA030-015001-) surrounds the opening (dims. c. 15m N-S; c. 10m E-W) to Ballynamintra cave caused by the collapse of part of the roof. Soils covering the opening were investigated by R. J. Ussher in 1881 and descirbed as a midden (1885-6, 362), and most of the excavation was around this opening. (Ussher 1885, 362-5)
Ussher, R. J. (1885) A description of objects found in the kitchen middens of raths, JRSAI 17, 362-68.
Date of upload/revision: 11th August, 2011. Compiled by: Michael Moore.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.