What is recorded here

Midden in Bunowna is a midden in Bunowna, County Sligo, Ireland. The deposit occupies a north-facing vertical face above the rocky foreshore, extending from a towerhouse at the east end to the Easky River outflow at the west end. Its thickest part lies at the river mouth, where a 4-metre-long and 0.08-metre-thick band of periwinkle and mussel shells sits 0.3 metres below the top of the 2.2-metre-tall face.

Situated in a N-facing vertical earth and rock face, overlooking rocky foreshore to N. Midden extends in varying concentrations along the total length of the face from a towerhouse (SL011-020---) at E to the outflow of the Easky River at W. The main concentration of midden material is at the mouth of the Easky River. Here the midden is visible as a band (L 4m E-W; T 0.08m) of periwinkle and mussel shells within a band of darker soil, 0.3m below the top of the vertical face (total H of face 2.2m). Compiled by: Mark Keegan Date of upload: 19 January 2011

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