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Midden in Kilcoe

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Located on Holly Island, a very small wooded and uninhabited island, at the mouth of the estuary of Roaringwater River. A layer (L 2m; T 0.1-0.15m) consisting mainly of oyster shells is exposed beneath the soil cover (T c. 0.4m) just above high water mark on the W side of the island. Volume 5' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2009).

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record CO140-070

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