What is recorded here

Midden in Kilboglashy is a midden in Kilboglashy, County Sligo, Ireland. Cut antler bone, oyster shells and animal bones lay 0.15 to 0.25 metres below the surface at the base of the south graveyard wall when a road to a sewage tank was built in 1970. Quernstones appeared nearby, while two further shell middens lay outside the northeast wall and in the field to the south.

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

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